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From: eokane@charm.UUCP (Evan Kane)
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Subject: Too high a price?
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Date: Wed, 25-Jul-84 22:21:55 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 25 22:21:55 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Jul-84 07:48:21 EDT
Organization: Physics Research - AT&T Bell Labs MH
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                 Humility
         
         I marvel that I can no more evoke
         The misery that overwhelmed me then,
         The numbing fear of shapeless things
         That hovered over one of dearest kin.
         
         In those bleak days when I was void
         Of every feeling not akin to pain,
         When hope was hidden in perpetual cloud,
         I had no thought for any self-concern.
         
         My sense of pride was totally submerged,
         I needed every contact I could find.
         I knew humility and was sustained,
         Sorrow connected me to all mankind.

         The blackest clouds at last began to thin
         And fear diminished slowly day by day,
         My spirits lifted, pride returned -
         Humility was also swept away.
         
              Evan Kane 7/24/84