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 Nay, but what shall satisfy? —This: the swift alternate racing When the sunlit shadows fly From the shadowy sunlight’s chasing Footsteps following nigh. Broken darkness, broken light, Knowledge knit with mystery, Glory temper’d with a sigh— Man’s inconstant spirit-sight Needs a shifting sky; Joy, with sorrow; wrong, with right; Light, with Night!