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I NEVER cared for Life: Life cared for me, / And hence I owed it some fidelity. / It now says, "Cease; at length thou hast learnt to grind / Sufficient toll for an unwilling mind, / And I dismiss thee-not without regard / That thou didst ask no ill-advised reward, / Nor sought in me much more than thou couldst find. "