Floss won't save you from an Abyss
But a Rope will -
Notwithstanding a Rope for a Souvenir
Is not beautiful -

But I tell you every step is a Trough -
And every stop a Well -
Now will you have the Rope or the Floss?
Prices reasonable -

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How soft this Prison is
How sweet these sullen bars
No Despot but the King of Down
Invented this repose

Of Fate if this is All
Has he no added Realm
A Dungeon but a Kinsman is
Incarceration - Home.

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Each that we lose takes part of us;
A crescent still abides,
Which like the moon, some turbid night,
Is summoned by the tides.

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Two Lengths has every Day -
Its absolute extent
And Area superior
By Hope or Horror lent -

Eternity will be
Velocity or Pause
At Fundamental Signals
From Fundamental Laws.

To die is not to go -
On Doom's consummate Chart
No Territory new is staked -
Remain thou as thou art.

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Sweet, to have had them lost
For news that they be saved -
The nearer they departed Us
The nearer they, restored,

Shall stand to Our Right Hand -
Most precious and the Dead -
Next precious
Those that rose to go -
Then thought of Us, and stayed.

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Some we see no more, Tenements of Wonder
Occupy to us though perhaps to them
Simpler are the Days than the Supposition
Leave us to presume

That oblique Belief which we call Conjecture
Grapples with a Theme stubborn as Sublime
Able as the Dust to equip its feature
Adequate as Drums
To enlist the Tomb.

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Who never wanted - maddest Joy
Remains to him unknown -
The Banquet of Abstemiousness
Defaces that of Wine -

Within its reach, though yet ungrasped
Desire's perfect Goal -
No nearer - lest the Actual -
Should disentrall thy soul -

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The Clouds their Backs together laid
The North begun to push
The Forests galloped till they fell
The Lightning played like mice

The Thunder crumbled like a stuff
How good to be in Tombs
Where Nature's Temper cannot reach
Nor missile ever comes

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