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“Thou little child, yet glorious in the night

Of heaven-born freedom on thy Being’s height,

Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke

The Years to bring the inevitable yoke⁠—

Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife?

Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight,

And custom lie upon thee with a weight

Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life.”

Wordsworth