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I SAID, "I will take my life / And throw it away; / I who was fire and song / Will turn to clay."
"I will lie no more in the night / With shaken breath, / I will toss my heart in the air / To be caught by Death."
But out of the night I heard, / Like the inland sound of the sea, / The hushed and terrible sob / Of all humanity.
Then I said, "Oh who am I / To scorn God to his face? / I will bow my head and stay / And suffer with my race. "