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A CALIFORNIA PILGRIMAGE, by                    
First Line: I questioned thus with the spirit
Last Line: "how can the thread give out?"


I questioned thus with the spirit:
"O, how can I do this thing?
The pattern is long and hard," I said,
"My thought but a slender string."

"O, faithless child," quoth the spirit,
"Begin but to weave, nor doubt;
While the other end of the skein we hold,
How can the thread give out?"





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