[00:03.175]No matter where I came from, I say,
[00:06.048]No matter where I go,
[00:08.041]To me what matter is where I am on this day
[00:15.841]Let me identify myself now
[00:18.374]Songsters both and both clad in brown
[00:21.705]The hermit thrush and I dwell far out of town
[00:28.895]Death, when you come to me,
[00:30.512]May you come to me swiftly
[00:33.027]I would rather not linger, not linger.
[00:42.406]Driving with air doctor one day for the air
[00:45.207]He recircled the square before he taught me
[00:47.852]How to square the very same circle.
[00:54.679]You are opportunist the very worst way
[00:57.196]Therefore, I pray,
[00:58.670]Let it pay for you to know me.
[01:06.351]I do not dress as I do to attract attention,
[01:09.339]I attract attention because I dress as I do.
[01:18.839]You the vandal plunder the village as you will
[01:22.448]The earthworm will pillage you the vandal,
[01:24.958]When you are under.
[01:29.798]I would bow down before just one:
[01:32.092]One who bows down before none.
[01:34.854]I should know who that one might be,
[01:36.860]Who would do that to me.
[01:38.894]I am that one
[01:40.404]And I bow down before me.
[01:46.075]Since the hunter is the hunted,
[01:47.620]Surely, he knows what it is to listen in ecstatic dread
[01:50.921]To some oncoming hunter′s tread.
[01:57.200]Such and such is a star
[01:58.795]That filters through the starry blue alone
[02:01.417]A burning star, turning in an orbit all of its own
[02:05.977]Such and such as I.
[02:12.530]Beasts were always great trail-blazing engineers.
[02:16.350]Modern engineering would do well to do as well today,
[02:19.866]As well as beasts have done.
[02:27.686]If on this rock I stand alone,
[02:30.443]Loneliness will turn heel as he turns to stone.
[02:40.163]Each today is yesterday's tomorrow,
[02:42.462]Which is now.
[02:44.215]Now is all I have, now is all I need,
[02:48.301]Now is all I want,
[02:50.566]Now.
[02:55.084]Better I go when you would that I stay, that I stay on,
[02:59.601]Than stay when you would that I would go.
[03:02.674]Better I go than stay.
[03:08.704]Ebb and flow of the ocean,
[03:11.004]Love and hate of emotion,
[03:13.514]Nothing lasts is my refrain,
[03:16.286]As the moon is my feelings wax and wane,
[03:19.836]I remain calm.
[03:26.868]I was just everything until I fell,
[03:29.882]And was just nothing.
[03:32.642]Then, worming up half-way,
[03:34.399]I found with pleasure:
[03:36.661]I was just something.
[03:42.202]Standing at the door of my departure I observed
[03:45.559]That your eyes belie all that you have said,
[03:48.602]For you are still in love with me.
[03:56.414]Then, when recognition comes,
[03:58.673]You will take my muse, take her to his bed of ease,
[04:02.462]Have his will, have his fill,
[04:06.001]And strangle her.
[04:13.813]My tiny butterfly butters my bread,
[04:17.262]My browny flutterby keeps me well-fed,
[04:20.776]Why should I mutter?
[04:28.811]Stung by this last rebuff,
[04:30.818]I rebound
[04:32.882]On the way back I hear me saying to myself,
[04:36.118]Dwell in your shell.
[04:43.151]One thing about life be it said,
[04:46.162]It feeds upon itself over and over
[04:49.425]And of itself is fed.
[04:58.158]Should I love you the way I love myself,
[05:00.671]Suppose I hate myself,
[05:03.694]I would be as free to hate you, too.
[05:12.988]I am never quite educated,
[05:14.561]Never quite so,
[05:16.317]But I am ever in the painful process
[05:18.350]Of becoming so.
[05:25.653]You remember me and my song.
[05:28.161]Only such immortality strikes creative sparks from my soul,
[05:32.705]Because of you.
[05:41.242]Who could wear out their welcome there,
[05:43.000]Where there is no welcome there to wear out.
[05:45.816]There is where it is,
[05:47.826]Here on earth.
[05:54.857]I would advise you not to generalize as a rule,
[05:58.894]A-hoo to be!
[06:00.650]I have just entered a generalization,
[06:02.909]Ah-me!
[06:08.217]Down is up and so up is down.
[06:10.726]Because the earth is round,
[06:13.000]There is no such a thing as up or down.
[06:21.017]This one wish is ever so near to my heart,
[06:23.785]But oh, so far away from my tongue.
[06:30.848]Sadness was so mixed with gladness that she wept for joy,
[06:34.611]She was so sad.
[06:36.880]Tear-filled eyes but enhanced a smile on her face.
[06:40.390]She was so glad.
[06:46.413]Think of all of the thoughts that I think.
[06:48.926]They are naught to me, compared with just one fleeting thought of you.
[06:59.472]How could I fear for my last day when I am dying daily,
[07:03.237]And have been since my first day?
[07:11.551]Thus, the clown wore cap and gown
[07:14.574]For she lived by degrees while she died by degrees
[07:18.410]With a frown.
[07:26.196]Voices of spring were in chorus,
[07:28.712]Each voice was singing a song.
[07:31.485]I could not sing in that chorus
[07:32.991]Until I wrote me a song.
[07:35.294]I wrote my song and joined the throng.
[07:44.643]Why besiege my liege still further?
[07:47.448]For my wooing is turning your majesty′s royal head
[07:50.967]And turning toward me.
[07:57.548]Though I climbed up the highest mountain in view,
[08:00.325]Yet contentment was not mine,
[08:03.613]For beyond, a mountain still higher was looming.
[08:12.222]Now is that painful moment of parting we dreaded.
[08:15.738]Saying goodbye is plural indemnity, truly,
[08:19.504]Of having said hello.