A Lotus Barge
Picking up the Holy Scriptures
Which I had cast into the depths,
Again I look up to the sky and wail.
I am a bewildered child.
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If today be full
And today be abundant,
I am glad to die today.
Tomorrow and yesterday
Are names I know not.
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I talk not of the way,
Think not of the future,
And ask nothing of fame.
Here we meet face to face,
My love and I.
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For your sake and for mine own,
And for days of youth together we spent,
I let fall hot tears of gladness
And cold tears of sadness.
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