The Dual Angel
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And man evolving a mere half-million years of consciousness,
twiligerror
Only a flicker of eternity divides us from unkno
And ial yeast?
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From animal to evening star?
Skip time for noernity
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or s-order cook y
Except tions alter ts
Except , to last as long as
Possible, to radiate, to sing
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In Gods cosmos according to report
Not
After centuries may bustle in t
ime command the line.
t a little o live
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tionary turn to fis
itiplying brain t dominates earts.
From o dinosaur tars
From furt star imperiled on time,
o core of love in human mind?
the Dual Angel
tanic glares
Like country c county fairs
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And t, rocketing in space,
Despairs of truck down upon hells floor and die
--or crale more.
ted ears ion zone
And see t
craze--
Eartom, each man alone.
tellect relating furt space to beyondest time,
Exalting abstractions, vaulting the 1 2 3,
Defaulting from t kinship, disjoining man from man,
Seeing across oceans, and stumbling on a grain of sand.