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A skull was once placed in my hand and I placed a watch inside it. The thoughts that came to me then were afterward written out in a poem.
Why should I fear it? Once the pulse of life / Throbbed in these temples, pale and bloodless now. / Here reason sat enthroned, its empire held / O'er infant thought and thought to action grown: / A flashing eye in varying glances told / The secret workings of immortal mind.