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William Cullen Bryant - MutationWilliam Cullen Bryant - Mutation
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They talk of short-lived pleasure—be it so— Pain dies as quickly; stern, hard-featured pain Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go. The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace. Oblivion, softly wiping out the stain, Makes the strong secret pangs of pain to cease: Remorse is virtue`s root; its fair increase Are fruits of innocence and blessedness; Thus joy, o`erborne and bound, doth still release His young limbs from the chains that round him press. Weep not that the world changes—did it keep A stable, changeless state, `twere cause indeed to weep.
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