A Drop's Life

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Upon the window of my motor warm
Dives the meager drop, dispersing itself.
Strong aerial winds carry it, and swarm,
To live therein, settle the crystal shelf.

Many a unit coagulates there
To compose a sole puddle 'mid the rest.
The fate of probability fails ne'er
To 'nvent a happy being in just mist.

The drop lives a glad life, sliding down and down,
The windowpane, diminishing meanwhile.
Hence the drop lives its long life, there to drown
In the vast everything of its world small.

Though happy and unknowing, the drop's life
Is oft'cut short by the sweeping black knife.

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