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  [begin leaf 1 recto]

After death.

Others hold levee in life,— ^After death ^Now ^when I am looked back upon, I will I hold  
  I levee, after death,
I lean on my left elbow—I  
 take ten thousand lovers, one  
 after another, by my right hand.—
  [begin leaf 1 verso] I have all lives, all effects, all  
 causes, all germes, invisibly  
 hidden in myself,
This is the earth's word—the round  
 and compact earth's,
I and the earth th truth are one, we are  
 curiously welded,
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