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He felt the blind, lost loneliness increase]
He felt the blind, lost loneliness increaseAs life compelled him to the final test.
He said: “The refuge of defeat is rest;
A soul's dishonour is the price of peace!
From star to star the flight shall never cease;
The Truth, perforce, is long and last and best:
Thro' life and death, with bruised, defenceless breast,
We seek the sunrise of the soul's release!”
And so he lived and almost died and died:
The night, the silence and the solitude
Left him magnificent and unsubdued;—
And we, who kept the vigil by his side,
Saw, when at last the door was opened wide,
Flash in his eyes the Dawn his soul pursued.
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