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CCCVII
Hopper's House By The Railroad
Mercy is: When stars go out
in black'ning whorls

you light a candle for Th'Gods

(making believe th'little clods
are Great Fabulous Worlds)

... All in all
Mercy's the misery

that holds in thrall
like The Moth, devout,
our boundless Fury

ashes to ashes, until we burn
to The Most Bottomless urn.

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