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Even the bravest that are slain	A
Shall not dissemble their surprise	B
On waking to find valor reign	A
Even as on earth in paradise	C
And where they sought without the sword	D
Wide fields of asphodel fore'er	E
To find that the utmost reward	D
Of daring should be still to dare	F
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The light of heaven falls whole and white	G
And is not shattered into dyes	B
The light forever is morning light	G
The hills are verdured pasture wise	B
The angle hosts with freshness go	H
And seek with laughter what to brave	I
And binding all is the hushed snow	H
Of the far distant breaking wave	I
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And from a cliff top is proclaimed	J
The gathering of the souls for birth	K
The trial by existence named	J
The obscuration upon earth	K
And the slant spirits trooping by	L
In streams and cross and counter streams	M
Can but give ear to that sweet cry	L
For its suggestion of what dreams	M
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And the more loitering are turned	N
To view once more the sacrifice	C
Of those who for some good discerned	N
Will gladly give up paradise	C
And a white shimmering concourse rolls	O
Toward the throne to witness there	F
The speeding of devoted souls	O
Which God makes his especial care	F
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And none are taken but who will	P
Having first heard the life read out	Q
That opens earthward good and ill	P
Beyond the shadow of a doubt	Q
And very beautifully God limns	O
And tenderly life's little dream	R
But naught extenuates or dims	O
Setting the thing that is supreme	R
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Nor is there wanting in the press	O
Some spirit to stand simply forth	S
Heroic in it nakedness	O
Against the uttermost of earth	K
The tale of earth's unhonored things	O
Sounds nobler there than 'neath the sun	T
And the mind whirls and the heart sings	O
And a shout greets the daring one	T
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But always God speaks at the end	U
'One thought in agony of strife	V
The bravest would have by for friend	U
The memory that he chose the life	V
But the pure fate to which you go	H
Admits no memory of choice	O
Or the woe were not earthly woe	H
To which you give the assenting voice '	-
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And so the choice must be again	W
But the last choice is still the same	X
And the awe passes wonder then	W
And a hush falls for all acclaim	X
And God has taken a flower of gold	Y
And broken it and used therefrom	X
The mystic link to bind and hold	Y
Spirit to matter till death come	X
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'Tis of the essence of life here	Z
Though we choose greatly still to lack	A2
The lasting memory at all clear	B2
That life has for us on the wrack	A2
Nothing but what we somehow chose	O
Thus are we wholly stipped of pride	C2
In the pain that has but one close	O
Bearing it crushed and mystified	C2

Robert Frost

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