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THERE were two youths of equal age	A
Wit station strength and parentage	B
They studied at the self same schools	C
And shaped their thoughts by common rules	C
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One pondered on the life of man	D
His hopes his endings and began	D
To rate the Market's sordid war	E
As something scarce worth living for	E
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I'll brace to higher aims said he	F
I'll further Truth and Purity	F
Thereby to mend and mortal lot	G
And sweeten sorrow Thrive I not	G
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Winning their hearts my kind will give	H
Enough that I may lowly live	I
And house my Love in some dim dell	J
For pleasing them and theirs so well	J
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Idly attired with features wan	K
In secret swift he labored on	K
Such press of power had brought much gold	L
Applied to things of meaner mould	L
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Sometimes he wished his aims had been	M
To gather gains like other men	N
Then thanked his God he'd traced his track	O
Too far for wish to drag him back	O
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He look d from his loft one day	P
To where his slighted garden lay	P
Nettles and hemlock hid each lawn	Q
And every flower was starved and gone	Q
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He fainted in his heart whereon	Q
He rose and sought his plighted one	Q
Resolved to loose her bond withal	P
Lest she should perish in his fall	P
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He met her with a careless air	R
As though he'd ceased to find her fair	R
And said True love is dust to me	F
I cannot kiss I tire of thee	F
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That she might scorn him was he fain	Q
To put her sooner out of pain	Q
For incensed love breathes quick and dies	S
When famished love a lingering lies	S
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Once done his soul was so betossed	P
It found no more the force it lost	P
Hope was his only drink and food	P
And hope extinct decay ensued	P
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And living long so closely penned	P
He had not kept a single friend	P
He dwindled thin as phantoms be	F
And drooped to death in poverty	F
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Meantime his schoolmate had gone out	P
To join the fortune finding rout	P
He liked the winnings of the mart	P
But wearied of the working part	P
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He turned to seek a privy lair	R
Neglecting note of garb and hair	R
And day by day reclined and thought	P
How he might live by doing nought	P
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I plan a valued scheme he said	P
To some But lend me of your bread	P
And when the vast result looms nigh	T
In profit you shall stand as I	T
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Yet they took counsel to restrain	Q
Their kindness till they saw the gain	Q
And since his substance now had run	Q
He rose to do what might be done	Q
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He went unto his Love by night	P
And said My Love I faint in fight	P
Deserving as thou dost a crown	Q
My cares shall never drag thee down	Q
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He had descried a maid whose line	Q
Would hand her on much corn and wine	Q
And held her far in worth above	U
One who could only pray and love	U
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But this Fair read him whence he failed	P
To do the deed so blithely hailed	P
He saw his projects wholly marred	P
And gloom and want oppressed him hard	P
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Till living to so mean an end	P
Whereby he'd lost his every friend	P
He perished in a pauper sty	T
His mate the dying pauper nigh	T
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And moralists reflecting said	P
As dust to dust in burial read	P
Was echoed from each coffin lid	P
These men were like in all they did	P

Thomas Hardy

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