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SHADOWS THERE ARE by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH

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Last Line: THEY GROW TRANSPARENT, AND AS SHARP, AS GLASS.
Subject(s): SHADOWS;
Shadows there are, but shadows such as these
Are shadows only in the mortal mind,
Blown by the spirit, or the spirit's wind.

Yet shadows I have seen, of me deemed deeper,
That backed on nothing in the horrid air,

And try as try, I cannot limn the form
That some of them assume where I shall pass.
They grow transparent, and as sharp, as glass.



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