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Stupefy my heart to every day's monotony, / Seal up my eyes, I would not look so far, / Chasten my steps to peaceful regularity, / Bow down my head lest I behold a star.
Fill my days with work, a thousand calm necessities / Leaving no moment to consecrate to hope, / Girdle my thoughts within the dull circumferences / Of facts which form the actual in one short hour's scope.
Give me dreamless sleep, and loose night's power over me, / Shut my ears to sounds only tumultuous then, / Bid Fancy slumber, and steal away its potency, / Or Nature wakes and strives to live again.
Let each day pass, well ordered in its usefulness, / Unlit by sunshine, unscarred by storm; / Dower me with strength and curb all foolish eagerness -- / The law exacts obedience. Instruct, I will conform.