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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt - Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXVI
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I linger on the threshold of my youth.
 If you could see me now as then I was,
 A fair--faced frightened boy with eyes of truth
 Scared at the world yet angry at its laws,
 Plotting all plots, a blushing Cataline
 Betrayed by his own cheeks, a misanthrope
 In love with all things human and divine,
 The very fool of fortune and high hope,
 You would deny you knew me. Oh, the days
 Of our absurd first manhood, rich in force,
 Rich in desire of happiness and praise
 Yet impotent in its heroic course,
 And all for lack of that one worthless thing,
 Knowledge of life and love and suffering!
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