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The Giant's Reply
I met a giant upon my way;
He looked more wise than Nature.
«Tell me some truth»: so my tongue betrayed(*)
My soul to that more than creature.
«There is but one», in an old voice strange
He cried: 'things are more, I say,
Than Time in which they seem to change
And(**) Space that seems more than they.

Alexander Search
1908?

(*) N.d.E: Enmendation, "thus my tongue did betray"
(**) N.d.E: Enmendation, "And than"

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