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 To a last silence that should have no death.

That would have been somewhat the way of it,

You somewhat less than eminent dead fish,

If you had waited and had been content

To let those devils and those devil-women

Beat as they would your drums and dance and sing

And be invisible. You had followed them,

And seen and heard enough of them, God knows,

Already. Your daemon had a lenience then,

And you had not the protest of a soul

Between you and your right to stay alive;

All which was as it was. But it was so

No longer when you knew it was not so,

And that one day a bush might bloom with fire

At any trivial hour of inattention,

Whereafter your employment would have been