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Unwelcome shroud of the forgotten dead, / Oblivion's dreary fountain, where art thou: / Why speed'st thou not thy deathlike wave to shed / O'er humbled pride, and self-reproaching woe: / Or time's stern hand, why blots it not away / The saddening tale that tells of sorrow and decay?
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