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  • For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.

    Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Ballads for the Times: (now First Collected), Geraldine, A Modern Pyramid, Hactenus, A Thousand Lines, and Other Poems”, p.156