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THE MOTES

THE MOTES

I saw a universe to-day:Through a disclosing bar of lightThe motes were whirled in gleaming flightThat briefly dawned and sank away.
Each had its swift and tiny noon;In orbit-streams I marked them flit,Successively revealed and lit.The sunlight paled and shifted soon.

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