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1 To think of it!
To think of time — of all that retrospection !
To think of to-day and the ages continued hence- forward!
2 Have you guess'd you yourself would not continue?
Have you dreaded these earth-beetles ?
Have you fear'd the future would be nothing to you ?
3 Is to-day nothing ? Is the beginningless past nothing ?
If the future is nothing, they are just as surely nothing.
4 To think that the sun rose in the east ! that men and women were flexible, real, alive ! that every- thing was alive !
To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part !
To think that we are now here, and bear our part !
To think of time — of all that retrospection !
To think of to-day and the ages continued hence- forward!
2 Have you guess'd you yourself would not continue?
Have you dreaded these earth-beetles ?
Have you fear'd the future would be nothing to you ?
3 Is to-day nothing ? Is the beginningless past nothing ?
If the future is nothing, they are just as surely nothing.
4 To think that the sun rose in the east ! that men and women were flexible, real, alive ! that every- thing was alive !
To think that you and I did not see, feel, think, nor bear our part !
To think that we are now here, and bear our part !
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