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If in the years to come you should recall, / When faint at heart or fallen on hungry days, / Or full of griefs and little if at all
From them distracted by delights or praise; When failing powers or good opinion lost
Have bowed your neck, should you recall to mind
How of all men I honoured you the most, / Holding you noblest among mortal-kind:
Might not my love-although the curving blade
From whose wide mowing none may hope to hide, / Me long ago below the frosts had laid- Restore you somewhat to your former pride?
Indeed I think this memory, even then, / Must raise you high among the run of men.