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John Clare - An Invite, to Eternity
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	Wilt thou go with me, sweet maid,
	Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me
	Through the valley-depths of shade,
	Of night and dark obscurity;
	Where the path has lost its way,
	Where the sun forgets the day,
	Where there`s nor life nor light to see,
	Sweet maiden, wilt thou go with me!

	Where stones will turn to flooding streams,
	Where plains will rise like ocean waves,
	Where life will fade like visioned dreams
	And mountains darken into caves,
	Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me
	Through this sad non-identity,
	Where parents live and are forgot,
	And sisters live and know us not!

	Say, maiden; wilt thou go with me
	In this strange death of life to be,
	To live in death and be the same,
	Without this life or home or name,
	At once to be and not to be -
	That was and is not -yet to see
	Things pass like shadows, and the sky
	Above, below, around us lie?
	 
	The land of shadows wilt thou trace
And look nor know each other`s face.
The present mixed with reasons gone,
And past and present all as one.
Say maiden, can thy life be led
To join the living to the dead?
Then trace thy footsteps on with me,
We`re wed to one eternity.
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