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(Yet in the end

He shall return:

As at his birth he was,

So shall he be.)

How urge ye him of ten years with intent

Toward instruction? Yet a little space,

And he will grow and find his chastisement.

Speak unto him with tender tone of grace:

Joy shall he rouse

For them that bare him, for his father's house.

(For in the end

He shall return:

As at his birth he was,

So shall he be.)

How sweet the days to him of twenty years!

Swift as a hart he leapeth to and fro