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Chapter 1: Zen proverb, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.”
Chapter 2: Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Chapter 3: Jimmy Buffett, “Come Monday”
Chapter 4: ee cummings, “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled”
Chapter 5: Emily Dickenson, “Come Slowly, Eden”
Chapter 6: Gordon Smith, “Come by the Hills” (Irish folk tune; the version I love the most is performed by Emerald Rose but has been variously performed by Loreena McKennitt and Celtic Thunder.)
Chapter 7: ee cummings, “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled”
Chapter 8: ee cummings, “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled”
Chapter 9: ee cummings, “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled”
Chapter 10: Walt Whitman, “As Adam, Early in the Morning”
Chapter 11: Pablo Neruda, Morning, Sonnet XII
Chapter 12: Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XXV
Chapter 13: Sting, “Fields of Gold”: "You'll remember me/when the west wind moves/among the fields of barley."
Chapter 14: Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” (And yes, I know---now---that it's “world enough and time” but at the time I wrote Chapter 14, I didn't.)
Chapter 15: Robert Burns, “To a Louse.” One translation of the line is: "Would some Gift/the Giftie give us/to see ourselves/as others see us."
Chapter 16: “The Dark Night of the Soul,” by St. John of the Cross, as performed by Loreena McKennitt: “Beneath the cedars/all my love I gave.”
Chapter 17: Pablo Neruda, "Two Happy Lovers"
Chapter 18: Pablo Neruda, "Enigmas"
Chapter 19: Robert Frost, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Epilogue: Robert Frost, “Two Tramps in Mud Time”: “Only when love and need are one/is the deed ever done/for heaven and future's sake”
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