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SINE PROLE
Forth from ages thick in mystery,
Through the morn and noon of history,
To the moment where I stand
Has my line wound: I the last one—
Outcome of each spectral past one
Of that file, so many-manned!
Through the morn and noon of history,
To the moment where I stand
Has my line wound: I the last one—
Outcome of each spectral past one
Of that file, so many-manned!
Nothing in its time-trail marred it:
As one long life I regard it
Throughout all the years till now,
When it fain—the close seen coming—
After annals past all plumbing—
Makes to Being its parting bow.
As one long life I regard it
Throughout all the years till now,
When it fain—the close seen coming—
After annals past all plumbing—
Makes to Being its parting bow.
Unlike Jahveh's ancient nation,
Little in their line's cessation
Moderns see for surge of sighs:
They have been schooled by lengthier vision,
View Life's lottery with misprision,
And its dice that fling no prize!
Little in their line's cessation
Moderns see for surge of sighs:
They have been schooled by lengthier vision,
View Life's lottery with misprision,
And its dice that fling no prize!
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