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Edwin Arlington Robinson - Inferential
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Although I saw before me there the face  
Of one whom I had honored among men  
The least, and on regarding him again  
Would not have had him in another place,  
He fitted with an unfamiliar grace
The coffin where I could not see him then  
As I had seen him and appraised him when  
I deemed him unessential to the race.  
  
For there was more of him than what I saw.  
And there was on me more than the old awe
That is the common genius of the dead.  
I might as well have heard him: “Never mind;  
If some of us were not so far behind,  
The rest of us were not so far ahead.”
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