To think of time - of all that retrospection，

To think of to-day， and the ages continued henceforward.

Have you guess'd you yourself would not continue？

Have you dreaded these earth-beetles？

Have you fear'd the future would be nothing to you？

Is to-day nothing？ is the beginningless past nothing？

If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.

To think that the sun rose in the east - that men and women

were flexible， real， alive - that every thing was alive，

To think that you and I did not see， feel， think， nor bear our

part，

To think that we are now here and bear our part.