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I Vex Me Not With Brooding On The Years

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I vex me not with brooding on the years     That were ere I drew breath: why should I then     Distrust the darkness that may fall again     When life is done?    Perchance in other spheres--     Dead planets--I once tasted mortal tears,     And walked as now among a throng of men,     Pondering things that lay beyond my ken,     Questioning death, and solacing my fears.     Ofttimes indeed strange sense have I of this,     Vague memories that hold me with a spell,     Touches of unseen lips upon my brow,     Breathing some incommunicable bliss!     In years foregone, O Soul, was all not well?     Still lovelier life awaits thee.    Fear not thou!

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