| What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow |
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| Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, |
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| You cannot say, or guess, for you know only |
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| A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, |
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| And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, |
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| And the dry stone no sound of water. Only |
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| There is shadow under this red rock, |
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| (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), |
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| And I will show you something different from either |
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| Your shadow at morning striding behind you |
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| Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; |
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| I will show you fear in a handful of dust. |