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First Line: Dear friends, my solace in your gentle youth
Last Line: I suffered much, but something understood.
Subject(s): Life Choices; Reason


Dear friends, my solace in your gentle youth,
Keep this, to be the comfort of your age,
When sated eyes may prize a soberer page
And visions, passing, leave the smile of truth.
How full of empty passion and uncouth
The pageant of the world's distracted stage!
How fit for you and me the hermitage
Of wise austerity and silent ruth!
The idols of your life will one by one
Desert you in your need: your young loves first,
Then wife, then child, at last the sacred sun.
Yet as you close your eyes, it will seem good
To say: My life was not in all accurst;
I suffered much, but something understood.





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