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CANTO IV.] XXI.

Existence may be borne, and the deep root

Of life and sufferance make its firm abode

In bare and desolated bosoms: mute

The camel labours with the heaviest load,

And the wolf dies in silence—not bestowed

In vain should such example be; if they,

Things of ignoble or of savage mood,

Endure and shrink not, we of nobler clay

May temper it to bear,—it is but for a day.

XXII.

All suffering doth destroy, or is destroyed,

Even by the sufferer—and, in each event,

Ends:—Some, with hope replenished and rebuoyed,

Return to whence they came—with like intent,