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"Forgive? O yes! How lightly, lightly said! Forget? No, never, while the ages roll, Till God slay o'er again the undying dead, And quite unmake my soul!" Mary Coleridge.
I stepped down, it seemed, into a lilliputian world where the grander issues no longer drew the souls of men. The deep and simple things were fled, the old Nature gods withdrawn. The scale of life had oddly shrunk.