I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
("Jude the Obscure")
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Buta stirring thrills the air Like to sounds of joyance there That the rages Of the ages Shall be cancelled, and deliverance offered from the darts that were, Consciousness the Will informing, till it fashion all things fair.
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