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p. 589 [868]

My weary[1] life, that {…} unsatisfied

On the foiled brink of ever being but this,

To whom the power to will hath been denied

And the will to renounce doth also miss;

My sated life of[2] having nothing sated

Poised woes in the motion of moving doth stay[3],

Within its dreams from its own dreams abated —

This life let the Gods change or take away,

For this endless succession of waste[4] hours,

Like deserts after deserts, all being one,

Doth undermine the very dreaming powers

And poison even thought's active inaction,

     Tainting with fore-unwilled circle the dreamed act

     Twice thus removed from the unobtainèd fact.

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23/12/1917.

Thus twice removed from {…}

 
[1] w/dr\eary
[2] of /with\
[3] doth stay /poisèd aye\
[4] waste /empty\