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How can I think, or edge my thoughts to action,
When the miserly press of each day's need / Aches to a narrowness of spilled distraction / My soul appalled at the world's work's time-greed?
How can I pause my thoughts upon the task / My soul was born to think that it must do / When every moment has a thought to ask / To fit the immediate craving of its cue?
The coin I'd heap for marrying my Muse / And build our home i'th' greater Time-to-be / Becomes dissolved by needs of each day's use / And I feel beggared of infinity, / Like a true-Christian sinner, each day flesh-driven / By his own act to forfeit his wished heaven.