WHAT IS "I"?

GERTRUDE ASPLEN.

"I" — "I" — what can "I" be ?
Is it the flesh and bone we see, —
This human frame that mortal eyes
Look on, which suffers, sins, and dies?

Is "I" no more than this — blood, brain, and nerve,
That hastes, a fettered slave to fear and serve
The human passions, human grief and pain —
To be cast off when death shall choose to reign?

Can "I" be this, that death no more hath power
Its days to number, nay, to choose the hour
Of its own triumph — tell me, is this "I,"
Born of the flesh, to suffer, sin, and die?

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