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LXXIV.

"Yet, O God," I said, "O grave," I said, "O mother's heart and bosom, With whom first and last are equal, saint and corpse and little child! We are fools to your deductions, in these figments of heart-closing; We are traitors to your causes, in these sympathies defiled.