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Thought.

Part of the cluster SONGS OF PARTING.

THOUGHT.

OF what I write from myself—As if that were not the  
 resumé; Of Histories—As if such, however complete, were not  
 less complete than the preceding poems; As if those shreds, the records of nations, could possibly  
 be as lasting as the preceding poems; As if here were not the amount of all nations, and of all  
 the lives of heroes.

Part of the cluster SONGS OF PARTING.

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