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,M J. M 'C'- lsfx 4 74 MYRON IENNISQNM FILES Professor Files retired in 1954 as Goldthwnite Profeesor of Rhetoric at Tufts College after leaching students for forty years. He ,md Mrs. Files are now living on their farm in Ap- pleton, Maine. The subject of the poem lives there, too.
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Wham 06:5 By Myron J. Files We sat there calm as a Yogi On the broad granite shelf At the edge of the cellar hole Wfaiting, the day's work done, For the car that would take him home. Patient -- the old turtle - patient As the cool stone beneath him Or the twisted lilacs at the wall's corner That mark the ancient homesite. Not yet one hundred years old, Yet eighty easily, the in-wrapped Gaze toward you, yet not upon you, or looking by You, or through you - as if you Were invisible, And he meditating upon a thought Begun by grandsires - The kind of thought fat Brahmas Hold in that think-pouch between the eyes For a thousand dreamy years, As an old lady holds her peppermint lozenge Under her tongue. He lives so long by being sparing Of talk, nervous movements, or fidgets. He mows out close to house walls and barn Where the tractor mower can not reach While younger men harvest the open fields, Hand mowing to them a lost art. His scythe rides gently on the ground A short arc, back and forth, Seeming to swing by its own weight, He using no strength, except in slow shuffle, And the grass falls before the blade Almost as if frightened and untouched. The Old Man makes hard work seem easy And scorned drudgery a morning's pleasure. No one in our town, they say, Except the Old Man, knows how to mow Clean. No one wants to know, they are the new Machine men and curse the stubborn chores M That won,t be mechanized. But, What will the young men do When the Old Man goes? He the last who knows the forgotten arts? They go to him when they can't make Apple juice turn into vinegar, W'hen it turns to bitter stuff instead. They ask him to find the boggy place on the Ridge Where the bulldozer can gnaw out a pond For the new fire truck to drink. Only the Old Man will know for sure Which bog bakes hard in August, Which holds gravel saturated with spring water The driest spell, he too can save the cow Menaced in calf birthg he can recall Where ran the boundary line between two angry farmers And they'd accept no other referee. He gives freely what he knows when asked, Yet asks nothing, nor shows surprise nor fears. The news that srartles men - the Pearl Har- bors - i Makes them look fearful at each other, Disturbs not the neutralism of old age: Young men have hot emotions, Old men have cool thoughts. And his thoughts seem not of our world But are remote and cold as the North Star. He is among us but not of us, And when we need his secret wisdom, His knowledge of forgotten arts, XVe must recall him from where his mind Wfanders in hill pastures, And every time it's harder to bring him back Or hold him till we get from him What we need to learn Of what the Old Man, only, knows. What will the young men do -- When the Old Man goes?
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