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Because My Faltering Feet

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Because my faltering feet may fail to dare     The first descendant of the steps of Hell     Give me the Word in time that triumphs there.     I too must pass into the misty hollow     Where all our living laughter stops: and hark!     The tiny stuffless voices of the dark     Have called me, called me, till I needs must follow:     Give me the Word and I'll attempt it well.     Say it's the little winking of an eye     Which in that issue is uncurtained quite;     A little sleep that helps a moment by     Between the thin dawn and the large daylight.     Ah! tell me more than yet was hoped of men;     Swear that's true now, and I'll believe it then.

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