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'T is so much joy! 'T is so much joy! / If I should fail, what poverty! / And yet, as poor as I / Have ventured all upon a throw; / Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so / This side the victory!
Life is but life, and death but death! / Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath! / And if, indeed, I fail, / At least to know the worst is sweet. / Defeat means nothing but defeat, / No drearier can prevail!
And if I gain, -- oh, gun at sea, / Oh, bells that in the steeples be, / At first repeat it slow! / For heaven is a different thing / Conjectured, and waked sudden in, / And might o'erwhelm me so!