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To me it seems that they who grasp the world,
The Kingdom and the power and the glory,
Must pay with deepest misery of spirit,
Atoning unto God for a brief brightness,
And ever ransom, like this rigid king,
The outward victory with inward loss.

— Stephen Phillips Herod (1901)

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