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EVERYMAN'S EPITAPH by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER

First Line: LISTEN: I KNEW IN LIFE AND BREATH
Last Line: AND THE WORLD FAIR TO LIVE UPON.

Listen: I knew in life and breath
Your darkest void, your purest flame;
For I have loved, and smiled at death,
And I have feared, alone with shame.

Therefore this word I leave with you
Who flush and faint as I have done:
Doubt not that all good things are true,
And the world fair to live upon.



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