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The world is woven all of dream and error
And but one sureness in our truth may lie --
That when we hold to aught our thinking's mirror / We know it not by knowing it thereby.
For but one side of things the mirror knows, / And knows it colded from its solidness.
A double lie its truth is; what it shows / By true show's false and nowhere by true place.
Thought clouds our life's day-sense with strangeness, yet / Never from strangeness more than that it's strange / Doth buy our perplexed thinking, for we get / But the words' sense from words -- knowledge, truth, change.
We know the world is false, not what is true.
Yet we think on, knowing we ne'er shall know.