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Only in the chamber of death writhed the world's most piteous thing--a childless mother.
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Why may I not rest me from this restlessness and sleep from this wide waking?
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Better far this nameless void that stops my life than a sea of sorrow for you.
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Well sped, my boy, before the world had dubbed your ambition insolence, had held your ideals unattainable, and taught you to cringe and bow.