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BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE.
"And truly the dimmed eye draws earthward now!"
"Wife, if thou leav'st me, I am lost indeed!"
"She once was—now is nothing, thou may'st say."
"Raise thy face nor forsake thy children thus!"
"Ah, willingly indeed I leave them not!But—fare ye well, my children!"
"Look on them—Look!"
"I am nothingness."
"What dost thou? Leav'st . . . "
