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"Arise, depart, for this is not your rest. " / Oh, burden of all burdens, -- still to arise / And still depart, nor rest in any wise! / Rolling, still rolling thus to east from west, / Earth journeys on her immemorial quest, / Whom a moon chases in no different guise. / Thus stars pursue their courses, and thus flies / The sun, and thus all creatures manifest / Unrest, the common heritage, the ban / Flung broadcast on all humankind, -- on all / Who live; for living, all are bound to die. / That which is old, we know that it is man. / These have no rest who sit and dream and sigh, / Nor have those rest who wrestle and who fall.