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And to repay the other! Why rejoices
Thy heart with hollow joy for hollow good,
Why cowl thy face beneath the Mourner's hood,
Why waste thy sighs, and thy lamenting voices,
Image of Image, Ghost of Ghostly Elf,
That such a thing, as thou, feel'st warm or cold!
Yet what and whence thy gain, if thou withhold
These costless shadows of thy shadowy self![errata 1])
Be sad! be glad! be neither! seek, or shun!
Thou hast no reason why! Thou can'st have none!
Thy being's being is contradiction.
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