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For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid

There is a country to cross you willfind in the corner of your eye, inthe quick slip of your foot—air fardown, a snap that might have caught.

And maybe for you, for me, a high, passingvoice that finds its way by beingafraid.

That country is there, for us,carried as it is crossed.

What you fearwill not go away: it will take you intoyourself and bless you and keep you.

That's the world, and we all live there.

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William Stafford

William Edgar Stafford (January 17, 1914 – August 28, 1993) was an American poet and pacifist. He was the father of poet and essayist Kim Staffo…

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