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 And, if we make it so, an antidote For the same poison that afflicted us.' I'm witness to the poison, but the cure Of my complaint is not, for me, in Time. There may be doctors in eternity To deal with it, but they are not here now. There's no specific for my three diseases That I could swallow, even if I should find it, And I shall never find it here on earth."

"Mightn't it be as well, my friend," I said "For you to contemplate the uncompleted With not such an infernal certainty?"

"And mightn't it be as well for you, my friend," Said Avon, "to be quiet while I go on? When I am done, then you may talk all night—