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Why did I laugh tonight? |
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No voice will tell |
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No God, no Demon of severe response, |
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Deigns to reply from Heaven |
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or from Hell. |
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Then to my human heart I turn at once: |
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Heart! |
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Thou and I are here sad and alone; |
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I say, why did I laugh? |
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O mortal pain! |
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O Darkness! |
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Darkness! ever must I moan, |
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To question Heaven and Hell and Heart in vain. |
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Why did I laugh? |
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I know this Being's lease, |
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My fancy to its utmost blisses spreads; |
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Yet would I on this very midnight cease, |
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And all the world's gaudy ensigns see in shreds; |
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Verse, Fame, |
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and Beauty are intense indeed, |
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But Death intenser |
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-- Death is Life's high meed. |
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