Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and bears a laden breast; Full of sad experience, moving toward the stillness of rest.
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Oh teach me yet; Somewhat before the heavy clod; Weighs on me, and the busy fret; Of that sharp-headed worm begins; In the gross blackness underneath.
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An arm; Rose up from out the bosom of the lake, Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful.
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He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.
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