the gods are counting.
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whose numbers I cannot countand would not wish to know;who seldom know each other;and perhaps, that’s just as well..who, in their dressing-gowns on Christmas morn,amid bright wrappings hasty torn,and exclamations…fall suddenly quiet,are far, somewhere else for several moments;return, and look silently in thought, deeply,at partner, children; their eyesnow a little more shining than they were..or…
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