• I shall not conquer, much as I may strive,
  Added TextThe end is come. However much I strive
• For 'tis myself I'd conquer. Oh to I fail, between & so the end's come. I do think
• That in some moment Sometimes tho' even yet before I sink
• For ever in By mine own deeds to death and my soul dive
• Down without Not knowing whither down, I still alive ere it rive
• The chains that bind it fast on to Shall find out but when just on the mere brink
• Of the world's end, some strange and that one, that hidden unknown link
• Of feeling she now dreams not of may To bind her soul to mine. But No, let me drive
• Her heart in towards me! These thoughts away! God, too I know, will sever
• 10 Our souls, even there: for she'll fly up to be there in the full
• House of his Saints, all crowned at peace; but I shall not so.
• Oh God! Oh God! I think ?/whereso Oh God! I am quite sure that I shall never
• See her again! that my own hands will pull
• Me down from her! My eyes feel burned and are hot. No, much remains to know.

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W.M.