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SHALL I tell you, then, how it is? -- / There came a cloven gleam / Like a tongue of darkened flame / To flicker in me.
And so I seem / To have you still the same / In one world with me.
In the flicker of a flower, / In a worm that is blind, yet strives, / In a mouse that pauses to listen
Glimmers our / Shadow; yet it deprives / Them none of their glisten.
In every shaken morsel / I see our shadow tremble / As if it rippled from out of us hand in hand.
As if it were part and parcel, / One shadow, and we need not dissemble / Our darkness: do you understand?
For I have told you plainly how it is.