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                    <l rend="indent">Life is a desert drear,</l>
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                    <l rend="indent">A sandy plain ;</l>
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                    <l rend="indent">A waste, a wild career</l>
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                    <l rend="indent">For phantom forms of Fear,</l>
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                    <l rend="indent">Sorrow and Pain.</l>
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                    <l rend="indent">No guide hath man, no guide&#x2014;</l>
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                    <l rend="indent">Self must on self confide ;</l>
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                    <l rend="indent">No hand to lead him on,</l>
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                    <l rend="indent">No hope to rest upon&#x2014;</l>
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                    <l rend="indent">Nought but the grave !</l>
                    <l>Man veils his eyes, and lo, blind Phantasy</l>
                    <l>Sits at her loom and weaves a sacred mystery,</l>
                    <l>A magic woof of dreams&#x2014;glad dreams of liberty&#x2014;</l>
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                    <l rend="indent">And Death ? Ah Death's a sage</l>
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                    <l rend="indent">Who stills our fears ;</l>
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                    <l rend="indent">Our doubts and faiths engage</l>
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                    <l rend="indent">And eke our tears.</l>
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                    <l rend="indent">Hushed in expectancy</l>
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                    <l rend="indent">A last-drawn sigh, a sleep,</l>
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                    <l rend="indent">And Death calls " Laugh," or "Weep,"&#x2014;</l>
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                    <l rend="indent">'Tis then we know</l>
                    <l>Thy form aright, O Master ! from the guise</l>
                    <l>Of Life's prim pageant, Thee, with unsealed eyes&#x2014;</l>
                    <l>Sum of our hopes or fears&#x2014;we recognise</l>
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