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There - floodlit in the dark - is the enormous Cedar which gives the ward its name . How could a body not take heart from the sight of the limb it lost
last winter and survived , the pale flesh under the bark , the wound still fresh ?
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There has been so much talk of odds and chances , we could be leaving a casino , with our purses lightened , moving toward the car in Set Down Only .
The shadow of the crane boom passes over . A weight leaves the earth , heavenward . No-one catches anyone ' s eye . No-one is getting away with his life .
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