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This Consciousness that is awareOf Neighbors and the SunWill be the one aware of DeathAnd that itself alone

Is traversing the intervalExperience betweenAnd most profound experimentAppointed unto Men -

How adequate unto itselfIts properties shall beItself unto itself and noneShall make discovery.

Adventure most unto itselfThe Soul condemned to be -Attended by a single HoundIts own identity.

c. 1864                    1945

Another example of her fascination with death as an epistemological frontier. The mysterious knowledge that passes all understanding can only be approached alone, and will only be revealed at the precise moment when we cease to be able to express what we know.