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LXII.
[Oh heart, why wilt thou suffer evermore?]
Oh heart, why wilt thou suffer evermore?What is thy limit of endurance? Spray
Rends rocks, and rust eats iron bars away;
But thou, though yearlong thus afflicted sore,
Art not consumed: but as the rough-ribbed shore,
Tide-washed and worn, of some wave-eaten bay,
Repairs the sea's destruction day by day,
Thou art renewed, abiding as before.
Is it that some diviner element
Hath made thee proof against earth's frets and jars
That thou dost so o'er-tax this body and brain?
Or is it that, seeing some light beyond the strain,
Thou with thy gaze fixed somewhere on the stars
Abidest still in a severe content?
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