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But grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,

The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. Philosophy and science, and the springs

Of wonder, and the wisdom of the world,

I have essayed, and in my mind there is

A power to make these subject to itselk—

But they avail not: I have done men good,

And I have„met with good even among men— But this avail'd not: I have had my foes,

And none have baffled, many fallen before me— But this avail'd not:— Good, or evil, life, Powers, passions, all I see in other beings,

Have been to me as rain unto the sands,

Since that all-nameless hour. I have no dread, And feel the curse to have no natural fear,

Nor fluttering throb, that beats with hopes or wishes, Or lurking love of something on the earth.—

Now to my task!—

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