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God knows it, I am with you. [] If to prize / Those virtues, priz'd and practis'd by too few, / But priz'd, but lov'd, but eminent in you, / Man's fundamental life: if to despise / The barren optimistic sophistries / Of comfortable moles, whom what they do / Teaches the limit of the just and true --
And for such doing have no need of eyes: / If sadness at the long heart-wasting show / Wherein earth's great ones are disquieted: / If thoughts, not idle, while before me flow / The armies of the homeless and unfed: --
If these are yours, if this is what you are, / Then am I yours, and what you feel, I share.