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Duty surviving Self-Love

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The only sure friend of declining life     A Soliloquy     Unchanged within, to see all changed without,     Is a blank lot and hard to bear, no doubt.     Yet why at others' Wanings should'st thou fret?     Then only might'st thou feel a just regret,     Hadst thou withheld thy love or hid thy light     In selfish forethought of neglect and slight.     O wiselier then, from feeble yearnings freed,     While, and on whom, thou may'st, shine on! nor heed     Whether the object by reflected light     Return thy radiance or absorb it quite:     And tho' thou notest from thy safe recess     Old Friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air,     Love them for what they are ; nor love them less,     Because to thee they are not what they were

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