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The Unknowing

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They do not know the awful tears we shed,     The tender treasures that we keep and kiss;     They could not be so still--our quiet dead     In knowing this.     They do not know what time we turn to fill     Love's empty chalice with a cheaper bliss;     They could not be so still--so very still     In knowing this.

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