O earth, so full of dreary noises O men, with wailing in your voices O delvd gold, the wailers heap O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall God strikes a silence through you all, And giveth his beloved, sleep.
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If to conquer love, has tried,To conquer grief, tries more, as all things prove;
For grief indeed is love and grief beside.
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Our Euripides, the human, With his droppings of warm tears, And his touches of things common Till they rose to touch the spheres.
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And, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
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A hope, to sing by gladly?
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This race is never grateful from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
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But the child's sob in the silence curses deeper
Than the strong man in his wrath.
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