What Is Life?

• Resembles Life what once was held of Light,
• Too ample in itself for human sight ?
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• An absolute Self—an element ungrounded—
• All, that we see, all colours of all shade
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• By encroach of darkness made ?—
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• Is very life by consciousness unbounded ?
• And all the thoughts, pains, joys of mortal breath,
• A war-embrace of wrestling Life and Death ?