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Eternities

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I cannot count the pebbles in the brook.     Well hath He spoken: 'Swear not by thy head,     Thou knowest not the hairs,' though He, we read,     Writes that wild number in his own strange book.     I cannot count the sands or search the seas,     Death cometh, and I leave so much untrod.     Grant my immortal aureole, O my God,     And I will name the leaves upon the trees.     In heaven I shall stand on gold and glass,     Still brooding earth's arithmetic to spell;     Or see the fading of the fires of hell     Ere I have thanked my God for all the grass.

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