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'And yet, alas! the real ills of life 'Claim the full vigour of a mind prepared; 'Prepared for patient, long, laborious strife, 'Its guide Experience, and Truth its guard. 'We fare on earth, as other men have fared: 'Were they successful? Let not us despair. 'Was disappointment oft their sole reward? 'Yet shall their tale instruct, if it declare, 'How they have borne the load ourselves are doomed to bear.