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Let me not hate, although the bruising world decries my peace, / Gives me no quarter, hounds me while I sleep; / Would snuff the candles of my soul and sear my inmost dreamings.
Let me not hate, though girt by vipers, green and hissing through the dark; / I fain must love. God help me keep the altar-gleams that flicker wearily, anon, / On down the world's grim night!