'We'll take you up to see the view, ' they said.
And so we journeyed through the Autumn rain,
The children wishing they had played instead;
Their weary parents trying to explain,
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I have always loved this poem - the quiet unbidden leap to an unexpected freedom not of our making but so known and so full of grace.