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Your riches know no kind of pause
 * Your trade is fast advancing,

You dance—but not for joy, because
 * You weep as you are dancing.
 * To dance implies that man is glad,
 * To weep implies that man is sad.
 * But here are you
 * Who do the two—
 * You weep as you are dancing!"