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Even In The Grave

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I laid my inventory at the hand     Of Death, who in his gloomy arbour sate;     And while he conned it, sweet and desolate I heard Love singing in that quiet land. He read the record even to the end -     The heedless, livelong injuries of Fate,     The burden of foe, the burden of love and hate; The wounds of foe, the bitter wounds of friend: All, all, he read, ay, even the indifference,     The vain talk, vainer silence, hope and dream. He questioned me: "What seek'st thou then instead?"     I bowed my face in the pale evening gleam. Then gazed he on me with strange innocence: "Even in the grave thou wilt have thyself," he said.

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