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 And to repay the other! Why rejoices
 * Thy heart with hollow joy for hollow good,
 * Why cowl thy face beneath the Mourner's hood,

Why waste thy sighs, and thy lamenting voices,
 * Image of Image, Ghost of Ghostly Elf,

That such a thing, as thou, feel'st warm or cold! Yet what and whence thy gain, if thou withhold
 * These costless shadows of thy shadowy )

Be sad! be glad! be neither! seek, or shun! Thou hast no reason why! Thou can'st have none! Thy being's being is contradiction. Errata