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To yearn for what we have not had, to sit / With hungry eyes glued on the Future's gate, / Why, that is heaven compared to having it / With all the power gone to appreciate.
Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, / And die at last with unappeased desire, / Than live to be the jest of such a fate, / For that is my conception of hell-fire.