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THOUGHT, "How terrible, if I were seenJust as in will and deed I had always been!And if this were the fate that I must faceAt the last day, and all else were God's grace,How must I shrink and cower before them there,Stripped naked to the soul and beggared bareOf every rag of seeming!" Then, "Why, no,"I thought, "Why should I, if the rest are so?"