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40.

THAT shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro, seek-
     ing a livelihood, chattering, chaffering,
How often I find myself standing and looking at it
     where it flits,
How often I question and doubt whether that is really
     me;
But in these, and among my lovers, and carolling my
     songs,
O I never doubt whether that is really me.