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Of Death I try
to think like
this,
The Well in
which they lay
us
Is but the Likeness
of the Brook
That menaced
not to slay us,
But to invite
by that Dismay
Which is the
Zest of sweetness
To the same
flower
Flower
Hesperian,
Decoying but to
greet us -
I do remember
when a Child
With bolder
Playmates straying
To where a Brook
that seemed a Sea
Withheld us by
it's roaring
From just a
Purple Flower
beyond
Until constrained
to clutch it
Were Doom itself the penalty -
If Doom itself
were the result,
The bravest
boldest
leaped, and
clutched it -
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