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Like coral insects multitudinous         The minutes are whereof our life is made.         They build it up as in the deep's blue shade     It grows, it comes to light, and then, and thus     For both there is an end. The populous         Sea-blossoms close, our minutes that have paid         Life's debt of work are spent; the work is laid     Before our feet that shall come after us.     We may not stay to watch if it will speed,         The bard if on some luter's string his song     Live sweetly yet; the hero if his star     Doth shine. Work is its own best earthly meed,         Else have we none more than the sea-born throng     Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

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