Book 2 — WHAT IS LIFE?[394:1]
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WHAT IS LIFE?[394:1]
Resembles life what once was deem'd of light, Too ample in itself for human sight? An absolute self—an element ungrounded— All that we see, all colours of all shade By encroach of darkness made?— 5 Is very life by consciousness unbounded? And all the thoughts, pains, joys of mortal breath, A war-embrace of wrestling life and death?
1805.
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deem'd] held Lit. Souvenir, 1829.
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ample] simple MS.
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per se (in its own Nature) Is Life itself MS.