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often recurred to me during the progress of my record: as a hope, a trust, a conviction:
"Ist's möglich ein Geschöph in der Natur zu sein, Und stets und wiederum auf falsher Spur zu sein?
Or, as the question of the poet can be put into English:
"Can one created be—of Nature part— And ever, ever trace a track that's false?
No... I do not believe it!
Faithfully yours,
Oswald.
Velencze,
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