Chapter 14
The footprint in the sand
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1 The lonely green island lies small in a wide blue sea, a tiny figure by the pale rock
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2 On the hill crown, Crusoe admires himself in his goat-skin cap, breeches and buskins
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3 From the hill at evening, a tiny watcher sees the current return, farther from shore
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4 A single bare human footprint lies crisp in smooth pale sand
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5 Alone on the sand, the goat-skin-clad castaway freezes above a single bare footprint
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6 At dawn, the young castaway kneels beside his plank bed with his hands clasped and his head bowed.
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7 A sun-browned finger rests under a line of comfort in the worn open Bible at dawn
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8 Crusoe sets his bare foot by the stranger's print, which is far larger than his own
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9 The castaway's stakes have grown into a green wall; only the rock's pale crest shows
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