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Why did I
laugh tonight? No voice will tell:
No God, no Demon
of severe response,
Deigns to reply from Heaven or
from Hell.
Then to my human heart I turn at once.
Heart! Thou and I are here, sad and alone;
I say, why
did I laugh? O mortal pain!
O Darkness! Darkness!
ever must I moan,
To question Heaven and Hell and
Heart in vain.
Why did I laugh? I know this Being's
lease,
My fancy to its utmost blisses spreads;
Yet
would I on this very midnight cease,
And the world's
gaudy ensigns see in shreds;
Verse, Fame, and Beauty
are intense indeed,
But Death intenser -Death is
Life's high meed.
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