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I would not if I could undo my past, / Tho' for its sake my future is a blank; / My past for which I have myself to thank, / For all its faults and follies first and last. / I would not cast anew the lot once cast, / Or launch a second ship for one that sank, / Or drug with sweets the bitterness I drank, / Or break by feasting my perpetual fast. / I would not if I could: for much more dear / Is one remembrance than a hundred joys, / More than a thousand hopes in jubilee; / Dearer the music of one tearful voice / That unforgotten calls and calls to me, / "Follow me here, rise up, and follow here."