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To my friend R. U. Johnson. Nature loves the number five Four conundrums a doggerel 1 Why is R. U. J's Kindness like a
grasshopper? Because it makes the earth beautiful and few know how it is done 2 Why is it like a star? Because it is steadfast
and ever in bloom 3 Why is it like the ocean? Because it is boundless, endless, sublime 4 Why is it like a glacier? Because
nothing can stop it and it discharges in big chunks O for a lodge in some vast frigeration, some boundless contiguity of
frost some boreal prarie Icy, Airy, Where sultry heat from old Manhattan's shore might never reach me more 01693