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Something

Born 9/27/1862


It is something in this darker dream demented
         to have wrestled with its pleasure and its pain:
it is something to have sinned, and have repented:
         it is something to have failed, and tried again!

It is something to have loved the brightest Beauty
         with no hope of aught but silence for your vow:
it is something to have tried to do your duty:
         it is something to be trying, trying now!

And, in the silent solemn hours,
         when your soul floats down the far faint flood of time --
to think of Earth's lovers who are ours,
         of her saviours saving, suffering, sublime:

And that you with THESE may be her lover,
         with THESE may save and suffer for her sake --
IT IS JOY TO HAVE LIVED, SO TO DISCOVER
         YOU'VE A LIFE YOU CAN GIVE AND SHE CAN TAKE!


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