[BNP/E3, 49A2 – 53]

16-8-10.

The sense of greatness when it falls upon us

Brings a deep sadness and a {…} ache

For the unmanning of {…} doth dare us

With a |deep sense| of how far we forsake

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Those usual ways of custom where we wake

To trust humanity since birth and own us

Its follows in the sacred our heart doth take

To {…} this ceases, greatness known bring on us.

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[53v]

After 1.1912

What is out independence? The mere sense

Of basely apartness and flesh-place

Distinct, a body-mute soul pretence

Of having self by {…} grace.[1]

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But a community with other souls

Links of a chain whose links turmoil but mix not

Yet cannot even be far from each other[2], wholes

That need each other to be wholes and linked thought

These are but words; but souls are words of God.

These are but images, but so is the word.

How where I stand and think on the above

Of mine own self, her do I err

     For who can know |where| there is[3] not involve

     A whole world true with |a real|[4] infinity? 

 
[1] Of having self by {…} grace. /Of having more than a |mere|/lost\ soul in space /a soul bodied by space\\
[2] from each other /each from each\
[3] |where| /if\ there is /be\
[4] |a real| /outer\