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I never hear
that one is dead
Without the chance
of Life
Afresh annihilating me
That mightiest Belief,
Too mighty for the
Daily mind
That tilling it's abyss,
Had Madness, had
it once or, Twice
The Consciousness of this.
yawning Consciousness,
Beliefs are Bandaged,
like the Tongue
When Terror
were it told
In any Tone
commensurate
Would strike
us instant
Dead -
I do not know
the man so
bold
He dare
in lonesome Place - • secret Place
lonely
Place
That awful
stranger -
Consciousness
look squarely in the Face.
Deliberately
face -
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