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To think of time - of all that retrospection，
To think of to-day， and the ages continued henceforward.
Have you guess'd you yourself would not continue？
Have you dreaded these earth-beetles？
Have you fear'd the future would be nothing to you？
Is to-day nothing？ is the beginningless past nothing？
If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.
To think that the sun rose in the east - that men and women
were flexible， real， alive - that every thing was alive，
To think that you and I did not see， feel， think， nor bear our
part，
To think that we are now here and bear our part.