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POEMS. 191
LII.
THIRST.
TX7E thirst at first, 't is Nature's act ;
- And later, when we die,
A little water supplicate Of fingers going by.
It intimates the finer want,
Whose adequate supply Is that great water in the west
Termed immortality.
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