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[1] When next he found himself no house was there, No garden and great trees. Beside a lane In grass he lay. Now first he was aware That, all one side, his body glowed with pain: And the next moment and the next again Was neither less nor more. Without a pause It clung like a great beast with fastened claws;
[2] That for a time he could not frame a thought Nor know himself for self, nor pain for pain, Till moment added on to moment taught The new, strange art of living on that plane, Taught how the grappled soul must still remain, Still choose and think and understand beneath The very grinding of the ogre's teeth.