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THE MOLE by PATRICIA KATHLEEN PAGE

Last Line: ARE MOUNTAINS LEFT BEHIND HIM.
Subject(s): ANIMALS; MOLES;
The mole goes down the slow dark personal passage—
a haberdasher's sample of wet velvet moving
on fine feet through an earth that only
the gardener and the excavator know.

The mole is a specialist and truly
opens his own doors; digs as he needs them
his tubular alleyways; and all his hills
are mountains left behind him.



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