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any vision should reveal Thy likeness, I might count it vain As but the canker of the brain; Yea, though it spake and made appeal

To chances where our lots were cast Together in the days behind, I might but say, I hear a wind OF memory murmuring the past.

Yea, tho' it spake and bared to view A fact within the coming year; And tho' the months, revolving near, Should prove the phantom-warning true,

They might not seem thy prophecies, But spiritual presentiments, And such refraction of events As often rises ere they rise.