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I Know That He Exists

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I know that he exists     Somewhere, in silence.     He has hid his rare life     From our gross eyes.     'T is an instant's play,     'T is a fond ambush,     Just to make bliss     Earn her own surprise!     But should the play     Prove piercing earnest,     Should the glee glaze     In death's stiff stare,     Would not the fun     Look too expensive?     Would not the jest     Have crawled too far?

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"I know that he exists..."

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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