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What know we of the dead, who say these things,     Or of the life in death below the mould,     What of the mystic laws that rule the old     Gray realms beyond our poor imaginings     Where death is life? The bird with spray-wet wings     Knows more of what the deeps beneath him hold.     Let be: warm hearts shall never wax a-cold,     But burn in roses through eternal springs:     For all the vanished fruit and flower of Time     Are flower and fruit in worlds we cannot see,     And all we see is as a shadow-mime     Of things unseen, and Time that comes to flee     Is but the broken echo of a rhyme     In Gods great epic of Eternity.

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