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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 216-225

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Description: Our side of the fence is all dovetail — where they
winked and upset the story-book, that's
over on your side
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 226-234

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Description: As a sporting proposition of gaiety infused with taxes
no modern culture could survive
without a touch of France
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 235-241

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Description: New land cut out by real imaginary lines
based in older spirit courses
lay and bedrock, flight of birds and pointed feet
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 267-280

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Description: Everybody who lived should get a gold watch
for endurance
and a chain for hanging
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 281-288

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Description: De Pere, Wis.

The sound has never left the harp
The song will never leave the well
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 289-296

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Description: In the letter was the hope that you were well
For shorter hours
A newer coat
And Grace when there was any Grace to tell
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 297-303

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Description: The buildup of Answers took many years

On Saturday the band was stilled
and Monday morning they tore it down
leaving front and back of another...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 304-311

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Description: Always looking at the vacancy in that great sea of people

All there ever was was a greeting card
and that one a mirage
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 312-318

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Description: First one light is the truth and then another
but always it is shining on some counterpart
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 319-324

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Description: There used to be a quiet. It wasn't deafness, it was roses

But they don't make it any more
They think it was a toy
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 325-333

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Description: White horses, white fences that money can't buy
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 343-350

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Description: Years ago, there was a man-sound from the hills, and a lifetime later
its aged and legendary echo
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 351-358

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Description: The boss says —
The center is —

Good workmen then served two masters
One a man, the other a craft

A fine-edged tool biting life-long in...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 359-369

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Description: Everybody was wonderful

Stars kept rising, pink and gold
Trailing threads of breathless music
barely out of reach
Hand to hand around the n...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 370-376

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Description: The earth is never still, but speaks her lovers
lying twined among the roots of grasses, lying long
stretched out from hill to hill

There wher...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 377-386

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Description: In the soft underside of war
The home point is to be home again with honor
without quite understanding why
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 387-393

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Description: Hang hope still higher, let it ring
Spend every care this day

for hope itself must decorate the dream
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 394-399

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Description: In the afternoon, nothing
Overnight, unseen

In the morning, a wooden horse with strangers
sending telegrams for more
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 400-412

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Description: We were promised, we were told
that candy came in stripes and boxes

But some was stacked,
like lost rewards, the chocolate-coated paradoxes
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 421-427

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Description: A word without momentum that settled on a note of calm

caught wind

and spun its venom into froth, to cool
a Sunday afternoon in June

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