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I	A
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I bent in the deep of night	B
Over a pedigree the chronicler gave	C
As mine and as I bent there half unrobed	B
The uncurtained panes of my window square let in the watery light	B
Of the moon in its old age	D
And green rheumed clouds were hurrying past where mute and cold it	B
globed	B
Like a drifting dolphin's eye seen through a lapping wave	C
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II	A
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So scanning my sire sown tree	E
And the hieroglyphs of this spouse tied to that	B
With offspring mapped below in lineage	F
Till the tangles troubled me	E
The branches seemed to twist into a seared and cynic face	G
Which winked and tokened towards the window like a Mage	F
Enchanting me to gaze again thereat	B
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III	A
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It was a mirror now	H
And in it a long perspective I could trace	G
Of my begetters dwindling backward each past each	I
All with the kindred look	J
Whose names had since been inked down in their place	G
On the recorder's book	J
Generation and generation of my mien and build and brow	H
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IV	C
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And then did I divine	K
That every heave and coil and move I made	B
Within my brain and in my mood and speech	I
Was in the glass portrayed	B
As long forestalled by their so making it	B
The first of them the primest fuglemen of my line	K
Being fogged in far antiqueness past surmise and reason's reach	I
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V	C
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Said I then sunk in tone	L
I am merest mimicker and counterfeit	B
Though thinking I AM I	A
AND WHAT I DO I DO MYSELF ALONE	L
The cynic twist of the page thereat unknit	B
Back to its normal figure having wrought its purport wry	A
The Mage's mirror left the window square	M
And the stained moon and drift retook their places there	M
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Thomas Hardy

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