3724047The Soul Of A Century — We know not...1943Josef Václav Sládek

WE KNOW NOT . . .

How came we to this world, which was then as it is now
We know not.
About the cold black clod that some day will fill our grave
We know not.
Though half of our life in dreams we live, true throbbing life
We know not.
What we were before we came, it matters not that
We know not.
Then why worry what we'll be, when no longer we shall be?
We know not.

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Original:

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) between 1929 and 1977 (inclusive) without a copyright notice.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1987, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 36 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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