Nature
If This Great World of Joy and Pain
From Poetical Works, ed. Knight (1896), vol. VII
Nature
If this great world of joy and pain
Revolve in one sure track;
If freedom, set, will rise again,
And virtue, flown, come back;
Woe to the purblind crew who fill
The heart with each day's care;
Nor gain, from past or future, skill
To bear, and to forbear!
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