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316 Farewell, conflicting joys and fears, Where light and shade alternate dwell; How bright the' unchanging morn appears! Farewell, inconstant world, Farewell! Its duty done,—as sinks the clay, Light from its load the spirit flies; While heaven and earth combine to say, "Sweet is the scene when Virtue dies!"