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Salve!

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To live within a cave, it is most good;     But, if God make a day,     And some one come, and say,     'Lo! I have gather'd faggots in the wood!'     E'en let him stay,     And light a fire, and fan a temporal mood!     So sit till morning! when the light is grown     That he the path can read,     Then bid the man God-speed!     His morning is not thine: yet must thou own     They have a cheerful warmth, those ashes on the stone.

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