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Hopeless.

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I think through the long, long evenings,     Such thoughts of intensest pain,     And I hope and watch for her coming,     But I hope and watch in vain,     My life is a long, long journey     Over a barren moor,     With nought but my own dark shadow     Hastening on before.     I'm weary of all this watching,     Aweary of life and thought;     For there's little hope in the distance,     And for peace - I know it not!     Oh, why must we think and shudder,     And shudder and think again?     When life's but a dance of shadows     Haunting a barren plain!

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