<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class=""><div id="poem-top" class="active tab-content" style="display: block; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><h1 style="font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101" size="3" style="font-weight: normal;">I would I might Forget that I am I</font></h1></div><div id="poem" class="active tab-content" style="display: block; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0; "><div class="poem" style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 25px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><p class="epigraph" style="font-variant: normal; line-height: 24px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 25px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101" style="font-size: 14px;"><i class="">Sonnet VII</i></font></p><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; " class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">I would I might forget that I am I,</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; " class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">And break the heavy chain that binds me fast,</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; " class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">Whose links about myself my deeds have cast.</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; " class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">What in the body’s tomb doth buried lie</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; " class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">Is boundless; ’tis the spirit of the sky,</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; " class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">Lord of the future, guardian of the past,</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; " class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">And soon must forth, to know his own at last.</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; " class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">In his large life to live, I fain would die.</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; " class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">Happy the dumb beast, hungering for food,</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; " class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">But calling not his suffering his own;</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; " class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">Blessèd the angel, gazing on all good,</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; " class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">But knowing not he sits upon a throne;</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; " class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">Wretched the mortal, pondering his mood,</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; " class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">And doomed to know his aching heart alone</font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; " class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><br class=""></font></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; " class=""><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> - George Santayana</span></font></div></div></div></body></html>