The First Day That I Was A Life

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The first Day that I was a Life
I recollect it-How still-
That last Day that I was a Life
I recollect it-as well-

'Twas stiller-though the first
Was still-
“Twas empty-but the first
Was full-

This-was my finallest Occasion-
But then
My tenderer Experiment
Toward Men-

“Which choose I”?
That-I cannot say-
“Which choose They”?
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