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Dying.

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The sun kept setting, setting still;     No hue of afternoon     Upon the village I perceived, --     From house to house 't was noon.     The dusk kept dropping, dropping still;     No dew upon the grass,     But only on my forehead stopped,     And wandered in my face.     My feet kept drowsing, drowsing still,     My fingers were awake;     Yet why so little sound myself     Unto my seeming make?     How well I knew the light before!     I could not see it now.     'T is dying, I am doing; but     I'm not afraid to know.

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