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And these vicissitudes tell best in youth;

For when they happen at a riper age,

People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,

And wonder Providence is not more sage.

Adversity is the first path to Truth:

He who hath proved War—Storm—or Woman's rage,

Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,

Hath won the experience which is deemed so weighty.

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