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OUR NOW.
Live in thy Present: take it not amiss,But understand it; make the most of it,
And of thyself, else art thou a misfit,
A sentence bracketed, hyphen 'twixt some bliss
To be or been, which, therefore, neither is;
“Let the dead bury their dead,” if thou hast wit
To take it so; and let Time-to-be fit
Itself, bear its own children, as does this.
I speak in figures—from thy field of view
The Past hath joined the years before the Flood;
The Future's not in sight, affords no clue:
Man should not raise that veil e'en if he could;
'Twould, like strange looks in face one never knew,
Perplex, with things not to be understood.
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