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Thoughts.

O the huge sob — A few bubbles — the white foam

spirting up — And then the women gone,

Sinking there, while the passionless wet flows on — And I now pondering, Are those women indeed gone ?

Are Souls drowned and destroyed so ?

Is only matter triumphant ?

6.

Of what I write from myself — As if that were not the resum^ ;

Of Histories — As if such, however complete, were not less complete than my poems ;

As if the shreds, the records of nations, could possibly be as lasting as my poems ;

As if here were not the amount of all nations, and of all the lives of heroes.

7.

Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness ;

As I stand aloof and look, there is to me something profoundly affecting in large masses of men, following the lead of those who do not believe in men.

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