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me, before
you, more than half-unknown, or
never to be met...for

I will die before you

and what can be smaller
than a day...in the narrow places we
all come, on the last of our lives

twixt threshold and fulfillment

for they will speak to you, kindly, with
empty hands and tongues that close doors, that
say you die...

and you will have no answer
being honestly without faith...but, there is an
older, and truer way

for I will leave this, and much more
behind me...just listen! and my bequest
will not be in vain





John Henry Calvinist