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"Here we but peak and dwindle / / The clank of chain and crane, / / The whirr of crank and spindle / / Bewilder heart and brain; / / The ends of our endeavor / / Are wealth and fame, / / Yet in the still Forever / / We're one and all the same;
"Yet beautiful and spacious / / The wise, old world appears. / / Yet frank and fair and gracious / / Outlaugh the jocund years. / / Our arguments disputing, / / The universal Pan / / Still wanders fluting fluting / / Fluting to maid and man. / / Our weary well-a-waying / / His music cannot still: / / Come! let us go a-maying, / / And pipe with him our fill." / / W.E. HENLEY