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BOY BENEATH THE STARS, by                    
First Line: Standing tense, alert to go
Last Line: Twisted things for him come right.


Standing tense, alert to go,
What can eager boyhood know
Of the crested wave's dark hollow?
He has known for long the shallow
Water where the minnows swim,
Nothing is too hard for him.

Now when sterner matters call
He will neither bend nor fall;
He has comeliness, this Saul.
Nothing daunts him, nothing sways,
He is sensitive to praise;
Angered when his cause is just
And a heavy adult thrust
Hedges him with bars of steel,
Not perceiving that his heel
Is equipped like Mercury's --
A boy's habitat is trees.

Underneath the stars at night
Twisted things for him come right.





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