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The spell is broke; the charm is flown! / Thus is it with life's fitful fever: / We madly smile when we should groan: / Delirium is our best deceiver.
Each lucid interval of thought / Recalls the woes of Nature's charter; / And he that acts as wise men ought, / But lives, as saints have died, a martyr.