... And yet a knowledge is here that tenses the throats for song: the inheritance of the ones, alive or once alive, who stand behind the ones I have imagined, who took into their minds the troubles of this place, blights of love and race, but saw a good fate Harald willingly paid its cost, kept it the best they could, thought of it's good, and mourned the good they lost.(From the ending of Where in Clearing, p179)

The Collected Poems