Forever. The sidereal loneliness

Received him, where no journeying leaves the less

Still to be journeyed through: but everywhere,

Fast though you fly, the centre still is there.

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And here the well-worn fabric of our life,

Fell from him. Hope and purpose were cut short,

—Even the blind trust that reaches in mid-strife

Towards some heart of things. Here blew the mort

For the world spirit herself. The last support