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/ I. O Life! O Death! O God! / Have I not striven? / Have I not known thee, God, / As thy stars know Heaven? / Have I not held thee true, / True as thy deepest, / Sweet and immaculate blue, / Of nights that feel thy dew? / Have I not _known_ thee true, / O God that keepest?
/ II. O God, my father, God! / Didst give me fire / To rise above the clod, / And soar, aspire! / What tho' I strive and strive, / And all my life says live, / The sneerful scorn of men / But beats it down again; / And, O! sun-centered high, / O God! grand poet! / Beneath thy tender sky / Each day new Keatses die, / And thou dost know it!