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This sentence have I left behind: / An aching body, and a mind / Not wholly clear, nor wholly blind, / Too keen to rest, too weak to find, / That travails sore, and brings forth wind, / Are God's worst portion to mankind.

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Ask not my name, O friend!

That Being only, which hath known each man / From the beginning, can / Remember each unto the end.

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