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LXIII.
[The office of the strong is to console]
The office of the strong is to console,And the heart's purest joy; freely to take
A world's woes on thee; with kind words to slake
The sick heart of a brother; to make whole
The mind's disease, despair, and to condole
By brave example with the weak:—forsake
Thyself for this, thou from ill dreams shalt wake,
A great peace growing up within thy soul.
Tears for another's pain are salve for thine,
And water not the spirits dastard weeds
As tears shed for thyself, but nurse the seeds
Of high resolve: this sovereign anodyne
In souls sincere begets those words and deeds
So human that man names them best divine.
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