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I TRAVEL as a phantom now, / For people do not wish to see / In flesh and blood so bare a bough / As Nature makes of me.
And thus I visit bodiless / Strange gloomy households often at odds, / And wonder if Man's consciousness / Was a mistake of God's.
And next I meet you, and I pause, / And think that if mistake it were, / As some have said, O then it was / One that I well can bear!