[BNP/E3, 16A – 25v]

p. 597 [866]

How yesterday is long ago! The past

Is a fixed infinite distance from to-day,

And bygone things, the first-lived as the last,

In irreparable sameness far away.

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How the to-be is infinitely ever

|Out of the home wherein it will be Now’s|

Like some far wave yet above us on the[1] river,

That reaches not us, but waterflows!

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Yet[2] the engulf of yesterday – where lies it?

The mute time flee that is not yet, what is of[3]?

What is myself, when |inward| deep tries it?

The missing of minute into[4] minute.

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     The mere eternal † where change

     Is fixed but in knowing itself stray.

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How the whole future is but in the future

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What {…} comes to fore-sever.

And yet the present is for those by those

 
[1] on the /in a\ /i' the\
[2] Yet /And\
[3] what is of /in it\
[4] into /onto\