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Taedium Vitae

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To stab my youth with desperate knives, to wear     This paltry age's gaudy livery,     To let each base hand filch my treasury,     To mesh my soul within a woman's hair,     And be mere Fortune's lackeyed groom, I swear     I love it not! these things are less to me     Than the thin foam that frets upon the sea,     Less than the thistledown of summer air     Which hath no seed: better to stand aloof     Far from these slanderous fools who mock my life     Knowing me not, better the lowliest roof     Fit for the meanest hind to sojourn in,     Than to go back to that hoarse cave of strife     Where my white soul first kissed the mouth of sin.

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