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IFE now so brief, in its Joys and its Tears, Will find Retribution in oncoming Years; O blest Retribution! a Moment of Strife, And Time will be merged in perennial Life; O blest Retribution! which dawns on our Sight, From thy full flowing Glories, fair Mansion of Light!