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 POEMS. 191

LII.

THIRST.

TX7E thirst at first, 't is Nature's act ;


 * And later, when we die,

A little water supplicate Of fingers going by.

It intimates the finer want,

Whose adequate supply Is that great water in the west

Termed immortality.

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