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Rh "Your gear is gray, Your face wears furrows untold." "—Yours might," mourned the other, "if you held, brother, The Presences from aforetime that I hold.

"You have not known Men's lives, deaths, toils, and teens; You are but a heap of stick and stone: A new house has no sense of the havebeens.

"Void as a drum You stand: I am packed with these, Though, strangely, living dwellers who come See not the phantoms all my substance sees!

"Visible in the morning Stand they, when dawn drags in; Visible at night; yet hint or warning Of these thin elbowers few of the inmates win.

"Babes new-brought-forth Obsess my rooms; straight-stretched Lank corpses, ere outborne to earth; Yea, throng they as when first from the 'Byss upfetched.