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FEAR not, dear friend, but freely live your days / Though lesser lives should suffer. Such am I, / A lesser life, that what is his of sky / Gladly would give for you, and what of praise.
Step, without trouble, down the sunlit ways.
We that have touched your raiment, are made whole / From all the selfish cankers of man's soul, / And we would see you happy, dear, or die.
Therefore be brave, and therefore, dear, be free; / Try all things resolutely, till the best, / Out of all lesser betters, you shall find; / And we, who have learned greatness from you, we, / Your lovers, with a still, contented mind, / See you well anchored in some port of rest.