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13-8-10.

We are in fate and Fate's and do but lack

Outness from soul to feel[1] ourselves its dwelling,

And can[2] but compel Fate aside or back

By Fate's own immanence in the[3] compelling.

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We are too far exiled the sense of things[4] 

To know how much we are not what we are,

And in us think the echo of the strings

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2.

Of our heart into otherness pulsated far.

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A doubleness of mind fails us, to glance

At our vision of ourselves amid things

Not by reflection, nor {…} by mind askance

But double-hinged in the {…}

But so as to act will {…}

But by material owing of soul’s wings

     And we are so[5] much {…} as to know

To think we will not, yet is this that workeds

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A doubleness of mind is ours alone

So lie still {…} unto belief and {…}

{…} and action’s dreams of unknown.

To commonplace action[6] gown. 

 
[1] soul /self\ to feel /know\
[2] can /do\
[3] the /our\
[4] We are too far exiled /We are too far in us from\ the sense of things /th’ world\
[5] so /thus\
[6] action /we in action\