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"I was a-thinking how life fails with us

Suddenly after such a little while;

When Love sobb'd in my heart, which is his home.

Whereby my spirit wax'd so dolorous

That in myself I said, with sick recoil:

'Yea, to my lady too this Death must come.'

And therewithal such a bewilderment

Possess'd me, that I shut mine eyes for peace;

And in my brain did cease

Order of thought, and every healthful thing.

Afterwards, wandering

Amid a swarm of doubts that came and went,

Some certain women's faces hurried by,

And shriek'd to me, 'Thou too shalt die, shalt die!'

"Then saw I many broken hinted sights

In the uncertain state I stepp'd into.

Meseem'd to be I know not in what place,

Where ladies through the street, like mournful lights,