[Cambridge][8th March 1972]

[Redbook1:231A][19720308][Cambridge][8th March 1972]

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DII

                Cambridge

Cambridge:

Mother and Child;

'What do you have from your time?'

I have lived in the bitter wetback;

I have studied under learned men.

The East wind blew my thoughts

away:

God alone knows where I came from,

God alone knows where I'm going,

God alone knows

God alone....

I will show you something, if you come to Cambridge:

I will show you people very busy learning:

Fascinating people, working, sleeping, talking;

                                   ... eating, drinking, talking;

                                   ... smoking, loving, talking;

                                 ... worshipping, and talking.

Will I show you people?

I see people, lonely people;

Do you see the ones who wander

Lonely through the dark?

See, there is no dark; only in the mind

Gropes the tiny person.  What he cannot find

No one else will give him: wholly in the mind.

At six o'clock the lights went out.

Slowly I began to see

Other people seeing me:

People turn, and turn about;

When the lights came on again

I was blinded.

                        Time and again

I see what they see, and I hear what they hear,

And nothing I say.  What do I fear?

-- I don't know.  Time and again.

Time and again.

Now the Sun sets, fire across the River,

Blood on the walls.  Time and again!

Mists curl across the dim meadows.

I wander here in darkness, in a darkness:

Inner darkness.

Is there a soul calling?

Sweet voices from the Chapel, singing

Rumble of the deep organ, bringing

Meaning to the great bell ringing,

Swinging over the World.

Poor World!

        We're a pair, the World and I,

        Swinging helpless through the Sky:

What shall we give you?

What have you given us?

                                        Life.

Time and again....

                Time and again.

(At 6 o'clock the lights went out – per rota because of power workers’ strike) <880324>

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