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He that goes back does, since he goes, advance

Though he’s not said to advance who goeth back;

And he that seeks, though he on nothing chance

May still by words be said to find a lack.

This paradox of having, that is nought

In the world's meaning of the things it {…}

Is yet true of the substance of pure thought

And there means something by the nought it means.

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For thinking nought does on nought being confer,

|Though| to give not be[1] acting not to give,

Denying being affirming not, to err

Being to {…} truth {…} by negative

So the world by a thought, how can we say

It doth exist, since thought can

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Would what void † thus may lead

No one can say, yet we our thought do feed.

So why call this world false, if false to he Being to be

Be to be aught

And being aught 

The act be true, though its {…} doth err

The act deceives, its lack doth undeceive.

 
[1] |Though| to give /As giving\ not be /is\