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Our toil is He, & eke our journey’s end;Our life-long ailment & our remedy,Our foeman & our ever-pitying friend;Who is more vanquishing than victory,Fairer than beauty, more belov’d than life;This is he who our peace is & our strife.Our strenuous earth is He & eke our Heaven,The crown of conquest & the armour riven,The strength, the struggle, yea, the failing even.Of Him all is, & unto Him alsoDoth all return: torment & yearning woeSurely shall pass, even as pleasures go.Yea, all have end, beggar & bountied king,Rapture & tears, resting & wandering.

Our toil is He, & eke our journey’s end;Our life-long ailment & our remedy,Our foeman & our ever-pitying friend;Who is more vanquishing than victory,Fairer than beauty, more belov’d than life;This is he who our peace is & our strife.Our strenuous earth is He & eke our Heaven,The crown of conquest & the armour riven,The strength, the struggle, yea, the failing even.Of Him all is, & unto Him alsoDoth all return: torment & yearning woeSurely shall pass, even as pleasures go.Yea, all have end, beggar & bountied king,Rapture & tears, resting & wandering.

Our toil is He, & eke our journey’s end;Our life-long ailment & our remedy,Our foeman & our ever-pitying friend;

Our toil is He, & eke our journey’s end;

Our life-long ailment & our remedy,

Our foeman & our ever-pitying friend;

Who is more vanquishing than victory,Fairer than beauty, more belov’d than life;This is he who our peace is & our strife.

Who is more vanquishing than victory,

Fairer than beauty, more belov’d than life;

This is he who our peace is & our strife.

Our strenuous earth is He & eke our Heaven,The crown of conquest & the armour riven,The strength, the struggle, yea, the failing even.

Our strenuous earth is He & eke our Heaven,

The crown of conquest & the armour riven,

The strength, the struggle, yea, the failing even.

Of Him all is, & unto Him alsoDoth all return: torment & yearning woeSurely shall pass, even as pleasures go.

Of Him all is, & unto Him also

Doth all return: torment & yearning woe

Surely shall pass, even as pleasures go.

Yea, all have end, beggar & bountied king,Rapture & tears, resting & wandering.

Yea, all have end, beggar & bountied king,

Rapture & tears, resting & wandering.


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