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Bearing the fear

Lest his own time indeed be drawing near.

(For in the end

He shall return:

As at his birth he was,

So shall he be.)

Ask: what befalls when sixty years are his?

Then have his muscles grown like root and bar

Set to his work—sufficing but for this

And rooted that they bend now but so far;

And never they

Shall move again to rouse him for the fray.

(For in the end

He shall return:

As at his birth he was,

So shall he be.)