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Pleasure, a worm which writhes all day, and at night Stirs up again in the heart of the sleeper, and stings him back to the curse of the light; Wealth with his wines and his wedded harlots; honest Poverty, bare to the bone; Opulent Avarice, lean as Poverty; Flattery gilding the rift in a throne; 20 Fame blowing out from her golden trumpet a jubilant challenge to Time and to Fate; Slander, her shadow, sowing the nettle on all the laurell’d graves of the Great; Love for the maiden, crown’d with marriage, no regrets for aught that has been, Household happiness, gracious children, debtless competence, golden mean; National hatreds of whole generations, and pigmy spites of the village spire; 25 Vows that will last to the last and vows that are snapp’d in a moment of fire; He that has liv’d for the lust of a minute, and died in the it, flesh without mind; He that has nail’d all to the Cross, till Self died out in the love of his kind; Spring and Summer and Autumn and Winter, and all these old revolutions of earth; All new-old revolutions of of the is all of it worth? 30 What the philosophies, all the sciences, change
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