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Epilogue

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Than farthest stars more distant,                 A mile more,                 A mile more,         A voice cries on insistent:         "You may smile more if you will;         "You may sing too and spring too;                 But numb at last                 And dumb at last,         Whatever port you cling to,         You must come at last to a hill.         "And never a man you'll find there                 To take your hand                 And shake your hand;         But when you go behind there         You must make your hand a sword         "To fence with a foeman swarthy,                 And swink there                 Nor shrink there,         Though cowardly and worthy         Must drink there one reward."

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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