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Should alone concern us.

Before and after are nothing as far as our duty lies in this instant 'now' towards other living feeling creatures

But regarding each thee or I of us unto himself, 'Before' and 'After' are stupendous in the mouldering of this 'Now'

From 'Before' do [stretch?] long arms of good and evil, each with a certain hand of measured force with a potters thumb long trained by generations to mould and shape

In 'After', while it is in its youth of future do prizes glean and glisten

The dross, as brilliant as the gold. And none know which be worthy.
Also there behind fair hedges of alluring dreams calamites in ambush lie, where fortune seems

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