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Alice: An Adultery
Alice: An Adultery (1903), PDF p. 46
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REINCARNATION
In life what hope is always unto men ?
Stories of Arthur that shall come again
To cleanse the Earth of her eternal stain,
Elias, Charlemagne, Christ. What matter then ?
What matter who, or how, or even when ?
If we but look beyond the primal pain,
And trust the Future to write all things plain,
Graven on brass with predestined pen.
This is the doom. Upon the blind blue sky
A little cloud, no larger than an hand !
Whether I live and love, or love and die,
I care not : either way I understand.
To me—to live is Christ ; to die is gain :
For I, I also, I shall come again.
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