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Show The image of his presence, the brow And the gesture of form...I considered...he lives Here in his own likeness...but the citation Of his dying...even so... And I meditated that in the graves Of great and small there prophesies the resurrection. The argument worked its way As I walked around him, and the leaves Whispering in the little winds, and the declension Of the sun in the mountains of Virginia, I saw by the letters in their grooves Of gold, the reading and the interpretation Of his genius. The Fourth of July 1 9 7 6 Thomas Jefferson still survives. |