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158 Yet I thought an angel, Gone past all regret, Would be willing that its gems Should be roughly set ; If perchance some might from them Rays of brightness get. Life is strangely duplex : From the far-off past Come the things of yesterday, Shadows forward cast. ' Tis the old old story, Earliest liveth last ; Lovers die, but love doth live — Darkness cometh fast.