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24 Ere while his portion, life and light, To him exist in vain.

He saw whatever thou hast seen, Encounter’d'all that troubles thee; He was—whatever thou hast been; He is—what thou shalt be.

The clouds and sun-beams, o’er his eye, That once their shades and glory threw, Have left, in yonder silent sky, No vestige where they flew.

The annals of the human race, Their ruin since the world began, Of him afford no other trace Than this,—there lived a man

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