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UNSOLVABLE by SUDIE STUART HAGER

First Line: WHY HIS WIFE DESERTED HIM, HE SIMPLY COULDN'T SEE
Last Line: SAYING THAT IN NATURE SHE SAW GOD!
Subject(s): NATURE;
Why his wife deserted him, he simply couldn't see;
But then, he said, her ways had been so odd:
Tramping through the April woods bare-headed in the rain,
Pointing at a blazing sunset with a cry of pain,
Talking softly to the snow-birds while she fed them grain,
Staring, mouth wide open, at a twisted, barren tree;
Saying that in Nature she saw God!



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