O heart, we are old The living beauty is for younger men We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.
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But is there any comfort to be found Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say.
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Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.
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One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a man's eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious of many things that we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.
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