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O earthly creature with thy dream of heaven, Obey, resigned and still, the earthly law. Accept the brief light that falls upon thy days; Take what thou canst of Life's permitted joy; Submitting to the ordeal of fate's scourge Suffer what thou must of toil and grief and care. There shall approach silencing thy passionate heart My long calm night of everlasting sleep: There into the hush from which thou cam'st retire." End of Canto Two 
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