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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Maya's poem
- In-Reply-To: Doris Smith's message of Wed, 20 Jan 1993 22:14:23 -0600
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:07:08 GMT
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- DS> == Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
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- DS> Here is the text of Maya Angelou's Inaugural poem. I'm not positive
- DS> about the stanza breaks.
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- DS> A Rock, A River, A Tree
- DS> Hosts to species long since departed,
- DS> Marked the mastodon.
- DS> The dinosaur, who left dry tokens
- DS> Of their sojourn here
- DS> On our planet floor,
- DS> Any broad alarm of their hastening doom
- DS> Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages.
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- Am I the only one who immediately started thinking
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- Glass of milk,
- Stands between extinction in the cold and explosive radiating growth.
- And the warm blood flows through the large four-chambered heart,
- Maintaining the very high metabolism rate they have.
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- [And how many recognize it?]
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