You may have noticed how frequently great
Mansions, museums, walls, and Taj Mahals
Were completed just before the dreamer
Died, or just after, or sometimes never,
How many castles were ruined barely
Occupied, how many structures, decades
In the planning and constructing, were just
A few years or never inhabited,
And the same is true of journeys and quests,
Moses felled in sight of the Promised Land,
Magellan cut down in the Philippines,
And of the dreams of the anonymous,
The unfinished yard, the sculpture garden,
The complete genealogy, these poems. . . .
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