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Last Line: But instinct esteem him %immortality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 679; Poem: 77


Conscious am I in my Chamber,
Of a shapeless friend -
He doth not attest by Posture -
Nor Confirm - by Word -


Neither Place - need I present Him -
Fitter Courtesy
Hospitable intuition
Of His Company -


Presence - is His furthest license -
Neither He to Me
Nor Myself to Him - by Accent -
Forfeit Probity -


Weariness of Him, were quainter
Than Monotony
Knew a Particle - of Space's
Vast Society


Neither if He visit Other -
Do He dwell - or Nay - know I -
But Instinct esteem Him
Immortality -






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