No Man can compass a Despair
No Man can compass a Despair
As round a Goalless Road
No faster than a Mile at once
The Traveller proceed
Unconscious of the Width
Unconscious that the Sun
Be setting on His progress
So accurate the One
At estimating Pain
Whose own has just begun
His ignorance the Angel
That pilot Him along
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