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Collected Poems: With Autobiographical and Critical Fragments

By Frederic W. H. Myers: Edited by his Wife Eveleen Myers

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[I am tired of all the years can give]

I am tired of all the years can give,
I am weary of all these things;
Tho' men should ask, I would not live
The life of seers or kings.
I care no more to learn or teach,
I love no more my breath,
And all but silence is my speech,
My life is all but death.