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To the Unfinished

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Clear eminence without whom I would be
nothing oh great provision never seen
barely acknowledged even wished away

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Just before Thanksgiving in 1960, The Nation published W.S. Merwin's poem for the holiday.

This is the year
when the swallows did not come back

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