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This wearisome and this distressing sleep	A
That we call life O how dost thou support	B
My Pepoli With what hopes feedest thou	C
Thy heart Say in what thoughts and in what deeds	D
Agreeable or sad dost thou invest	E
The idleness thy ancestors bequeathed	F
To thee a dull and heavy heritage	G
All life indeed in every walk of life	H
Is idleness if we may give that name	I
To every work achieved or effort made	J
That has no worthy aim in view or fails	K
That aim to reach And if you idle call	L
The busy crew that daily we behold	M
From tranquil morn unto the dewy eve	N
Behind the plough or tending plants and flocks	O
Because they live simply to keep alive	P
And life is worthless for itself alone	Q
The honest truth you speak His nights and days	R
The pilot spends in idleness the toil	S
And sweat in workshops are but idleness	T
The soldier's vigils perils of the field	U
The eager merchant's cares are idle all	L
Because true happiness for which alone	Q
Our mortal nature longs and strives no man	V
Or for himself or others e'er acquires	W
Through toil or sweat through peril or through care	X
Yet for this fierce desire which mortals still	Y
From the beginning of the world have felt	Z
But ever felt in vain for happiness	T
By way of soothing remedy devised	A2
Nature in this unhappy life of ours	W
Had manifold necessities prepared	B2
Not without thought or labor satisfied	C2
So that the days though ever sad less dull	D2
Might seem unto the human family	E2
And this desire bewildered and confused	F2
Might have less power to agitate the heart	G2
So too the various families of brutes	W
Who have no less than we and vainly too	H2
Desire for happiness but they intent	I2
On that which is essential to their life	H
Consume their days more pleasantly by far	J2
Nor chide with us the dulness of the hours	W
But we who unto other hands commit	K2
The furnishing of our immediate wants	W
Have a necessity more grave to meet	L2
For which no other ever can provide	C2
With ennui laden and with suffering	M2
The stern necessity of killing time	N2
That cruel obstinate necessity	E2
From which nor hoarded gold nor wealth of flocks	W
Nor fertile fields nor sumptuous palaces	W
Nor purple robes the race of man can save	O2
And if one scorning such a barren life	H
And hating to behold the light of day	P2
Turns not a homicidal hand upon	Q2
Himself anticipating sluggish Fate	R2
For the sharp sting of unappeased desire	S2
That vainly calls for happiness he seeks	W
In desperate chase on every side in vain	T2
A thousand inefficient remedies	W
In lieu of that which Nature gives to all	L
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One to his dress devotes himself and hair	X
His gait and gesture and the learned lore	U2
Of horses carriages to crowded halls	W
To thronged piazzas and to gardens gay	P2
Another gives his nights and days to games	W
And feasts and dances with the reigning belles	W
A smile perpetual is on his lips	W
But in his breast alas stern and severe	V2
Like adamantine column motionless	W
Eternal ennui sits against whose might	W2
Avail not vigorous youth nor prattle fond	X2
That falls from rosy lips nor tender glance	W
That trembles in two dark and lustrous eyes	W
The most bewildering of mortal things	W
Most precious gift of heaven unto man	V
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Another as if hoping to escape	Y2
Sad destiny in changing lands and climes	W
His days consuming wandering o'er sea	E2
And hills the whole earth traverses each spot	Z2
That Nature in her infinite domain	T2
To restless man hath made accessible	D2
He visits in his wanderings Alas	W
Black care is seated on the lofty prow	C
Beneath each clime each sky he asks in vain	T2
For happiness sadness still lives and reigns	W
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Another in the cruel deeds of war	U2
Prefers to pass his hours and dips his hand	A3
For his diversion in his brother's blood	B3
Another in his neighbor's misery	E2
His comfort finds and artfully contrives	W
To kill the time in making others sad	C3
This man still walks in wisdom's ways or art	G2
Pursues that tramples on the people's rights	W
At home abroad the ancient rest disturbs	W
Of distant shores on fraudful gain intent	I2
With cruel war or sharp diplomacy	W
And so his destined part of life consumes	W
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Thee a more gentle wish a care more sweet	L2
Leads and controls still in the flower of youth	D3
In the fair April of thy days to most	E3
A time so pleasant heaven's choicest gift	F3
But heavy bitter wearisome to him	G3
Who has no country Thee the love of song	H3
Impels and of portraying in thy speech	I3
The beauty that so seldom in the world	J3
Appears and fades so soon and that more rare	X
Which fond imagination kinder far	J2
Than Nature or than heaven so bounteously	D2
For our entranced deluded souls provides	W
Oh fortunate a thousand fold is he	W
Who loses not his fancy's freshness as	W
The years roll by whom envious Fate permits	W
To keep eternal sunshine in his heart	G2
Who in his ripe and his declining years	W
As was his custom in his glorious youth	D3
In his deep thought enhances Nature's charms	W
Gives life to death and to the desert bloom	K3
May heaven this fortune give to thee and may	P2
The spark that now so warms thy breast make thee	W
In thy old age a votary of song	H3
I feel no more the sweet illusions of	L3
That happy time those charming images	W
Have faded from my eyes that I so loved	M3
And which unto my latest hour will be	W
Remembered still with hopeless sighs and tears	W
And when this breast to all things has become	N3
Insensible and cold nor the sweet smile	D2
And rest profound of lonely sun lit plains	W
Nor cheerful morning song of birds in spring	M2
Nor moonlight soft that rests on hills and fields	W
Beneath the limpid sky will move my heart	G2
When every beauty both of Nature and	O3
Of Art to me will be inanimate	P3
And mute each tender feeling lofty thought	Q3
Unknown and strange my only comfort then	R3
Poor beggar must I find in studies more	U2
Severe to them thenceforward must devote	S3
The wretched remnant of unhappy life	H
The bitter truth must I investigate	R2
The destinies mysterious alike	T3
Of mortal and immortal things	W
For what was suffering humanity	W
Bowed down beneath the weight of misery	W
Created to what final goal are Fate	R2
And Nature urging it to whom can our	S2
Great sorrow any pleasure profit give	U3
Beneath what laws and orders to what end	V3
The mighty Universe revolves the theme	W3
Of wise men's praise to me a mystery	W
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I in these speculations will consume	K3
My idleness because the truth when known	Q
Though sad has yet its charms And if at times	W
The truth discussing my opinions should	X3
Unwelcome be or not be understood	X3
I shall not grieve indeed because in me	W
The love of fame will be extinguished quite	W2
Of fame that idol frivolous and blind	Y3
More blind by far than Fortune or than Love	L3

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