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Rh Take counsel with your grief, in that you know

That he who suffers suffers not in vain,

Nay, that it shall be for the whole world's gain,

And wisdom prove the priceless price of woe.

Thus in some new-found land where no man's feet

Have trod a path, bold voyagers astray,

May fall foredone by torturing thirst and heat:

But from the impotent body of defeat

The winners spring who carve a conquering way—

Measured by milestones of their perished clay.

ΑΝΑΓΚΗ.