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we strive, contending for success,

According to the standards of our day.

What is success? Is it to find a way

Wealth out of all proportion to possess?

Is it to care for simple pleasures less

(While grasping at a more extended sway),

And sacrificing to our gods of clay,

Submerge the soul, at last, in worldliness?

By Grasmere stands a cottage small and poor:

The Dove was once its emblem, and the sign

That marked it as a wayside inn obscure;