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EPIGRAM: AN INDISCRETION by ANONYMOUS

First Line: TOWARD A FAR GOAL MY DEAREST HOPE I SENT
Last Line: "AND THERE DID ENTER IN, AND THERE ABIDE"
TOWARD a far goal my dearest Hope I sent,
But bade her show to none the path she went;
So when Despair did meet her on her way,
And asked her: @3Whither bound?@1 she would not say.
@3Then tell, fair maid,@1 he prayed her, @3whence thou art.@1
And ah, she told him, from mine inmost heart;
And thither straight the envious Demon hied,
And there did enter in, and there abide.



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