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Have any of you, passers-by, / Had an old tooth that was an unceasing discomfort?
Or a pain in the side that never quite left you?
Or a malignant growth that grew with time?
So that even in profoundest slumber / There was shadowy consciousness or the phantom of thought / Of the tooth, the side, the growth?
Even so thwarted love, or defeated ambition, / Or a blunder in life which mixed your life / Hopelessly to the end, / Will like a tooth, or a pain in the side, / Float through your dreams in the final sleep / Till perfect freedom from the earth-sphere / Comes to you as one who wakes / Healed and glad in the morning!