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Elizabeth Bishop - Chemin De FerElizabeth Bishop - Chemin De Fer
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Alone on the railroad track  I walked with pounding heart. The ties were too close together  or maybe too far apart. The scenery was impoverished:  scrub-pine and oak; beyond its mingled gray-green foliage  I saw the little pond where the dirty old hermit lives,  lie like an old tear holding onto its injuries  lucidly year after year. The hermit shot off his shot-gun  and the tree by his cabin shook. Over the pond went a ripple  The pet hen went chook-chook. "Love should be put into action!"  screamed the old hermit. Across the pond an echo  tried and tried to confirm it.
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