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But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpet ...
Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.
Now I am powerless
to draw back
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Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs:
Despite the artful tensions of the calendar....
A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf.... For a month or two ...
The others died, the luck of it blurting through them.
I could not, I was a silly broken umbrella
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What's past and what's to come is strewed with husks
And formless ruin of oblivion;
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If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth,
When time is old and hath forgot itself,
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The rest is silence.
Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
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