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That Shadow, My Likeness.

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

That Shadow, my Likeness.

THAT shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro, seek- 
 ing a livelihood, chattering, chaffering; How often I find myself standing and looking at it  
 where it flits; How often I question and doubt whether that is really  
 me; —But in these, and among my lovers, and caroling my  
 songs, O I never doubt whether that is really me.

Part of the cluster CALAMUS.

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