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O LIFE, mysterious! looking down On me, with pregnant brows that frown, Lock’d lips that smile: I ask not what is meted me, The issues of my destiny If proud or vile;

Sorrow, or joy, my course control— What matter? so thou grant my soul Sure sight and keen; That she may throughly penetrate Each curse, each blessing; soon or late Grasp all they mean!