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PROJECTED SHADOWS.
AH, memory! ah, ruthless memory!Shall I not have one hour unfilled for thee?
Why wilt thou thus usurp the days to be,
Unsatisfied with all thy realms that lie
Behind the Present? Why o'ercloud the sky,
Glad with gold star-scripts of Futurity?
Hast thou not made the fleeting hours for me
Sunless enough, but thou must flicker by
The shrouding years and hovering on the verge
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Of all my pleasant creatures of delight,
Won with much wrestling from the haggard night,
And in their stead paint up a sky of storms
And the stern Fury sworded with the scourge?
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