Valden’s Poem

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Some stones are for keeping
Some stones are for skipping
Some stones are for casting away

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Rocks and clear water
Deep, but not cold
Do you remember your father
How he was when he got old?

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Do you remember the mountains
Treasure high, and untold?

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“Where did the Sun go?”
You’d wonder in your youth

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Where did your youth go
When at last you learned the truth?

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Starless night is not so made
The unmaking of the day
But that night itself at last be cast away

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But whither does that hope fly?
Will you ever ask why

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Some stones are for keeping
Some stones are for skipping
Some stones are for casting away?