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YOUTH. A SONNET SEQUENCE: ALTER EGO, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Imprisoned in this body I have found
Last Line: Before my song that shakes the walls of night!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Self


IMPRISONED in this body I have found
My enemy, who laughs a merry scorn
To see me standing with him on this ground
Scarred by the stars, and by the planets worn.
"The fine-blown dust you tread beneath your feet
Has power that you have not," he will say.
"Dust takes no count of moments that are fleet,—
Dust is the same through many a passing day."
My enemy has lived before this time,
And gained his wisdom from the changing years;
But oh, he cannot put it into rhyme,
Nor sing aloud to keep him from his fears;
And he is dust, and shadows in dim flight,
Before my song that shakes the walls of night!





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