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You twain fate spared not half your fiery span;
Yet love and loathing, faith and unfaith yet
Woven out of faith and hope and love too great
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IN THE BAY.
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xxviii.
The longer date fulfils the lesser man.
Ye from beyond the dark dividing date
Stand smiling, crowned as gods with foot on fate.
For stronger was your blessing than his ban,
And earliest whom he struck, he struck too late.
xxix.
Bind less to greater souls in unison,
And one desire that makes three spirits as one
Takes great and small as in one spiritual net
Woven out of hope toward what shall yet be done
Ere hate or love remember or forget.
xxx.
To bear the bonds of life and death and fate:
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