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The Masked Face

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I found me in a great surging space,      At either end a door,     And I said: "What is this giddying place,      With no firm-fixed floor,      That I knew not of before?"      "It is Life," said a mask-clad face.     I asked: "But how do I come here,      Who never wished to come;     Can the light and air be made more clear,      The floor more quietsome,      And the doors set wide? They numb      Fast-locked, and fill with fear."     The mask put on a bleak smile then,      And said, "O vassal-wight,     There once complained a goosequill pen      To the scribe of the Infinite      Of the words it had to write      Because they were past its ken."

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