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I am older than Nature and her Time / By all the timeless age of Consciousness, / And my adult oblivion of the clime / Where I was born makes me not countryless.
Ay, and dim through my daylight thoughts escape / Yearnings for that land where my childhood dreamed, / Which I cannot recall in colour or shape / But haunts my hours like something that hath gleamed / And yet is not as light remembered, / Nor to the left or to the right conceived; / And all round me tastes as if life were dead / And the world made but to be disbelieved. / Thus I my hope on unknown truth lay; yet / How but by hope do I the unknown truth get?