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This is called "The
Darker Powers."

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"Even if you're
right, and there's

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in fact a difference between
trouble unlooked-for,

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and the kind of trouble
we pursued, ruthlessly,

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until at last it was ours.

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What will the difference
have been, finally?

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What I've called the world
continues to pass for one,

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the room spins same as ever,
the bodies inside it do,

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flightless, but no less
addicted to mastering--

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to the dream of mastering--

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the very boughs
through which they keep

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falling without motion,
almost, that slowly.

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It seems they'll fall
forever, my pretty consorts,

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to whom sometimes--

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out of pity, not mercy, for
nothing tender about it--

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I show the darker powers
I've hardly shown to anyone.

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'Feel the weight of them,' I
say, before putting them back,

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just behind my heart, where
they blacken and thrive."

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