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Lenore:
When all is done, Sylvester? Nay, alas!
All is not done, our term of living sped,
There is a Judgment still to be endured,
And endless dolour or gladness yet to be.
Sylvester:
Your God may rule His heaven, but here on earth
I know two Gods, two dull unheeding Gods,
Invidious Time and cruel Circumstance,
Who ride the poor man with a double spur
Desire and Hunger, and the rich man drive
With pointed goad of dull Satiety,
Or longing for things unattainable.
To rule those Gods one must be young and strong.
There is but one life that is certain, this
We live to-day, and this we must prolong
But young, reviv'd, and reinvigorate.
No more to know the longing vain regret
