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none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">ONCE more I turn to the gloomy river bank,</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">To the dense and intimate shade of the Bo-tree, </p>

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none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Once more I return to the darkness.</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">I have, O Darkness, lighted lights</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Ever keener and keener;</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">And I have found no comfort there,</p>

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none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><span class=GramE>Nor consolation in that light.</span></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">O Darkness, I turn to
thee, receive me.</p>

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Chakravarti</b><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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