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THE WHEEL

New parts again. . . . I cannot see. . . . I cannot see. . . .

"Still He whirls His wheel; but His hair is graying,
His voice cracks and wheezes like mine, His wits nod. . . .
He and His wheel will some day cease,
And other wheels will shine through the spinning blackness. . . .
And some day it will stop,
And there will be no more motion, no more light,
No more darkness . . . nothing. . . . "

His voice was still, his eyelids narrowed;
He gazed out of the window.

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