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What Is Life?

Resembles Life what once was held of Light,
    Too ample in itself for human sight?
An absolute Self--an element ungrounded--
All, that we see, all colours of all shade
          By encroach of darkness made?--
Is very life by consciousness unbounded?
And all the thoughts, pains, joys of mortal breath,
A war-embrace of wrestling Life and Death?

Notes

Published in 1829.

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