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THERE are some qualities — some incorporate things,
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That have a double life, which thus is made
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A type of that twin entity which springs
From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade.
There is a two-fold Silence — sea and shore —
Body and soul. One dwells in lonely places,
Newly with grass o’ergrown; some solemn graces,
Some human memories and tearful lore,
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Render him terrorless: his name's “No More.”
He is the corporate Silence: dread him not!
No power hath he of evil in himself;
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But should some urgent fate (untimely lot!)
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Bring thee to meet his shadow (nameless elf,
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That haunteth the lone regions where hath trod
No foot of man,) commend thyself to God!
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Notes:
None.
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[S:0 - JHW11, 1911] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Sonnet -- Silence (ed. J. H. Whitty, 1911)