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To disappear
enhances - The
Man that runs away
Is tinctured
for an instant
with Immortality
But yesterday
a Vagrant -
Today, in
Memory lain
With superstitious
value -
We tamper
with "Again"
But "Never" far as Honor
Withdraws the
worthless thing
And impotent
to cherish
We hasten
to adorn.
Of Death
the sternest
function
That just
as we discern
The Excellence
defies us -
Securest gathered
then
The Fruit
perverse to
plucking, but
leaning to the
Sight
With the
extatic limit
Of unobtained
Delight -
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