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laid upon his forehead a caress,

And, smiling, gave him for his birthright dower,

Humor and judgment, passion, purpose, power,

And gifts of vision, pure and limitless:

Then—for she ever tempers man's success,

Nursing the canker in Earth's fairest flower—

She added pain; and taught him, hour by hour,

To know that only blessed which doth bless!

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