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first, this Earth, a stage so gloom'd with woe You all but sicken at the shifting scenes. And yet be patient. Our Playwright may show In some fifth Act what this wild Drama means.

man and woman still are incomplete, I prize that soul where man and woman meet, Which types all Nature's male and female plan, But, friend, man-woman is not woman-man.