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We are in Fate and Fate's and do but lack
Outness from soul to know ourselves its dwelling, / And do but compel Fate aside or back / By Fate's own immanence in the compelling.
We are too far in us from outward truth / To know how much we are not what we are, / And live but in the heat of error's youth, / Yet young enough its acting youth to ignore.
The doubleness of mind fails us, to glance / At our exterior presence amid things, / Sizing from otherness our countenance / And seeing our puppet will's act-acting strings.
An unknown language speaks in us, which we / Are at the words of, fronted from reality.