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We lack, yet cannot fix upon the lack: / Not this, nor that; yet somewhat, certainly. / We see the things we do not yearn to see / Around us: and what see we glancing back? / Lost hopes that leave our hearts upon the rack, / Hopes that were never ours yet seemed to be, / For which we steered on life's salt stormy sea / Braving the sunstroke and the frozen pack. / If thus to look behind is all in vain, / And all in vain to look to left or right, / Why face we not our future once again, / Launching with hardier hearts across the main, / Straining dim eyes to catch the invisible sight, / And strong to bear ourselves in patient pain?