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How dare the robins sing, / When men and women hear / Who since they went to their account / Have settled with the year! -- / Paid all that life had earned / In one consummate bill, / And now, what life or death can do / Is immaterial.
Insulting is the sun / To him whose mortal light, / Beguiled of immortality, / Bequeaths him to the night.
In deference to him / Extinct be every hum, / Whose garden wrestles with the dew, / At daybreak overcome!