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HEREAFTER.

"To be imprisoned in the viewless winds,

And blown with restless violence round about

The pendent world." - Measure for Measure.

THE eternal breath of God that whirls around

The swift-revolving world speaks through the groves,

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And echoes from each granite-walled abyss

Of mountain-passes, "Immortality."

Unheeded on our deadened ears it falls

Unmeaning, for we will not trace the voice

Articulate which tells of wider spheres

For our activity; but, like a barge

Upon a stream beneath the noonday sun,

We lazily float on.

At times a parcel of this animus

Is prisoned in the shackles that it scorns,

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