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 “They knew I had it—once! Do you remember

What an upstanding Ajax I was then?

And what an eye I had? I scorched ’em with it.

I scared ’em; and they knew I was a giant.

I knew it, also; and if I had known

One other thing, I should have gone down then

Upon my knees for strength—I who believed

Myself to be secure. They knew a little,

But they knew nothing of what I know now.

A year before you found what’s left of me,

That evening in the street, I should have said

My way was blank and ruinous to the end,

But there was more to be, Glory to God!

There was to be a more revealing end

Than that—an end that once had been for me

The bitterest end of all—and is not so.

For in the music I have heard since then