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FULFILMENT

Lo! we reach the results of life
With a hush of heart and brain
That is mute regret for the strife
We shall never know again.
Although we may conquering rise,
We shall look with yearning sweet,
And a smart in the sun-dimmed eyes,
To the years when we knew defeat;
And the crown of the life's success
We shall wear with yearning vain
For the years of our loneliness,
And the joy we then called pain.
A.