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THE WHITE THOUGHT by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON

First Line: WE, TEEMING TRANSIENTS OF THE SUN
Last Line: FIXED IN A WHITE, IMMORTAL THOUGHT.
Subject(s): IMMORTALITY; SUN; THOUGHT; THINKING;
WE, teeming transients of the sun,
Until our eager race be run,
Bestir us in a hundred ways
To leave, before the caverned dark
Engulf us, some small, vital spark --
A firefly in a somber maze --
To say to those who follow, we
Are not extinguished utterly;
Our mortal, that is less than naught,
Fixed in a white, immortal thought.



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