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What of all the will to do?
It has vanished long ago, / For a dream-shaft pierced it through / From the Unknown Archer's bow.
What of all the soul to think?
Some one offered it a cup / Filled with a diviner drink, / And the flame has burned it up.
What of all the hope to climb?
Only in the self we grope / To the misty end of time: / Truth has put an end to hope.
What of all the heart to love?
Sadder than for will or soul, / No light lured it on above; / Love has found itself the whole.