("rain or hail...")

u

rain or hail

sam done

the best he kin

till chey digged his hole

:sam was a man

stout as a bridge

rugged as a bear

slickern a weazel

how be you

(sun or snow)

gone into what

like all them kings

you read about

and on him sings

a whippoorwill;

heart was big

as the world aint square

with room for the devil

and his angels too

yes, sir

what may be better

or what may be worse

and what may be clover

clover clover

(nobody'll know)

sam was a man

grinned his grin

done his chores

laid him down.

Sleep well

IV

might these be thrushes climbing through almost (do they

beautifully wandering in merciful

miracles wonderingly celebrate day

and welcome earth's arrival with a soul)

sunlight? yes

(always we have heard them sing

the dark alive but)

look: begins to grow

more than all real, all imagining;

and we who are we? surely not i not you

behold nor any breathing creature this?

nothing except the impossible shall occur