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 My purpose only is to make you know How clearly I have known that you have known There was a reason waited on your coming, And, if it's in me to see clear enough, To fish the reason out of a black well Where you see only a dim sort of glimmer That has for you no light." "I see the well," I said, "but there's a doubt about the glimmer— Say nothing of the light. I'm at your service; And though you say that I shall not be happy, I shall be if in some way I may serve. To tell you fairly now that I know nothing Is nothing more than fair."—"You know as much As any man alive—save only one man, If he's alive. Whether he lives or not Is rather for time to answer than for me;