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The Answer

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O, my feet have worn a track     Deep and old in going back.     Thought released turns to its home     As bees through tangling thickets come.     One way of thought leads to the vast     Desert of the mind, and there is lost,     But backward leads to a dancing light     And myself there, stiff with delight.     O, well my thought has trodden a way     From this brief day to that long day.

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