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  1. Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon - Sleep will come when thou art fled; Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, bel…
  2. When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered, The rainbow's glory is shed.
  3. Swiftly walk over the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dream…
  4. The more we study, we the more discover Our ignorance.
  5. The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.
  6. Are ye, two vultures sick for battle, Two scorpions under one wet stone, Two bloodless wolves whose dry throats rattle, Two crows perched o…
  7. One word is too often profaned For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.
  8. There Is No God This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with th…

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