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A shot has been fired, a stone has been loosed, a dark hand has reached in among us. We fled before a shadow; but we have run in a circle and the shadow has overtaken us.
We have clamoured and searched; we steeled ourselves and yet have surrendered; we tried to elude it, yet it has sprung upon us; we lost our way, yet we still ran on further -but ever we felt the shadow at our heels and tried to escape it-We thought it was pursuing us-We did not know we were dragging it with us; that there where we were, it was also, silently standing-not behind us, but within us-in us ourselves.