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First Line: I need no assurances, I am a man who is
Last Line: Space, but I believe heavenly death provides for all.


I need no assurances, I am a man who is pre-occupied of his own soul;
I do not doubt that from under the feet and beside the
hands and face I am cognizant of, are now looking
faces I am not cognizant of, calm and actual faces,
I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are
latent in any iota of the world,
I do not doubt I am limitless, and that the universes are
limitless, in vain I try to think how limitless,
I do not doubt that the orbs and the systems of orbs play
their swift sports through the air on purpose, and
that I shall one day be eligible to do as much as
they, and more than they,
I do not doubt that temporary affairs keep on and on
millions of years,
I do not doubt interiors have their interiors, and
exteriors have their exteriors, and that the eyesight
has another eyesight, and the hearing another hearing,
and the voice another voice,
I do not doubt that the passionately-wept deaths of young
men are provided for, and that the deaths of young
women and the deaths of little children are provided for,
(Did you think Life was so well provided for, and Death,
the purport of all Life, is not well provided for?)
I do not doubt that wrecks at sea, no matter what the
horrors of them, no matter whose wife, child, husband,
father, lover, has gone down, are provided for, to the
minutest points,
I do not doubt that whatever can possibly happen anywhere
at any time, is provided for in the inherences of things,
I do not think Life provides for all and for Time and
Space, but I believe Heavenly Death provides for all.





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