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First Line: The bitter past
Last Line: Even as I taste it.
Subject(s): Future; Past; Poisons & Poisoning


THE bitter past
And the untasted future I mix up,
Making the present a dream-figured bowl
For the black poison, which is caked and moulded,
By the inside of the enchasing thoughts,
Even as I taste it.





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