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SUNSET AND MOONRISE.
Even as life with death, and fame with time, and
memory with the tomb
Where a dead man hath for vassals Fame the serf and
Time the slave.
Far from earth as heaven, the steadfast light withdrawn,
superb, suspense,
Burns in dumb divine expansion of illimitable flower:
Moonrise whets the shadow's edges keen as noontide:
hence and thence
Glows the presence from us passing, shines and passes
not the power.
Souls arise whose word remembered is as spirit within
the sense:
All the hours are theirs of all the seasons: death has
but his hour.
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