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POEMS. 141

��III.

n^HEY say that ' time assuages,'

  • Time never did assuage ;

An actual suffering strengthens, As sinews do, with age.

Time is a test of trouble,

But not a remedy. If such it prove, it prove too

There was no malady.

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