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To know just how he suffered · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: To know just how he suffered. To know just how
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Speaker 1: he suffered would be dear. To know if any human
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Speaker 1: eyes were near. To whom he could entrust his wavering
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Speaker 1: gaze until it settled firm on paradise. To know if
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Speaker 1: he was patient, part content, was dying as he thought,
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Speaker 1: or different. Was it a pleasant day to die? And
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Speaker 1: did the sunshine face his way? What was his furthest mind?
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Speaker 1: Of home? Of God? Or what the distance say? at
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Speaker 1: news that he ceased human nature on such a day?
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Speaker 1: And wishes, had he any? Just his sigh, accented, had
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Speaker 1: been legible to me. And was he confident until ill
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Speaker 1: fluttered out in everlasting well? And if he spoke, what
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Speaker 1: name was best? What first? What one broke off with
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Speaker 1: at the drowsiest? Was he afraid or tranquil? Might he
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Speaker 1: know how conscious consciousness could grow till love that was
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Speaker 1: and love too blessed to be meet and the junction
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Speaker 1: be eternity?