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Rh And all the things that you believed in once?

I think about nothing&mdash;sometimes I wonder if the linen is bleaching white, or I go out to see if the crows are picking up the chickens' food.

My God,&mdash;my God! I will go out myself.

My pupils said that they would find a man

Whose faith I never shook&mdash;they may have found him.

Therefore I will go out&mdash;but if I go,

The glass will let the sands run out unseen.

I cannot go&mdash;I cannot leave the glass.

Go call my pupils&mdash;I can explain all now,

Only when all our hold on life is troubled,