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BROTHER AND SISTER.
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Till the dire years whose awful name is Change
Had grasped our souls still yearning in divorce,
And pitiless shaped them in two forms that range
Two elements which sever their life's course.


But were another childhood-world my share,
I would be born a little sister there.


1869