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Yorick

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A golden largesse from a store untold     Announced the ruddy days imperial birth,     And woke a loyal world to jubilant mirth     And hopes that boasted, madly over-bold.     Shadow and thunder from a dull cloud rolled,     A shiver chilled the lately glittering firth,     As gloom set heavy hand upon the earth;     Yet look, on westward hills a gleam of gold.     You have laughed and bidden us laugh, O lord of jest;     You have wept and given us grief, O lonely friend;     And now we sit with silent lips and white,     And dream what craggy ways thou wanderest,     Not finding yet of hope or strife an end,     O soul set free from bondage of the night.

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