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 Until I see what's coming, if it comes, When I'm a delver in another garden— If such an one there be. If there be none, All's well—and over. Rather a vain expense, One might affirm—yet there is nothing lost. Science be praised that there is nothing lost."

I'm glad the venom that was on his tongue May not go down on paper; and I'm glad No friend of mine alive, far as I know, Has a tale waiting for me with an end Like Avon's. There was here an interruption, Though not a long one—only the while we heard, As we had heard before, the ghost of steps Faintly outside. We knew that she was there Again; and though it was a kindly folly, I wished that Avon's wife would go to sleep.