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Now, at this end of Adam's line I stand Holding my father's life-curse in my hand,
 * Doing no one the wrong that he did me:—

Ah, would that he were barren as the sand!

Ay, thus thy children, though they sovereigns be, When truth upon them dawns, will turn on thee,
 * Who cast them into life's dark labyrinth

Where even old Izrail can not see.