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Sonnet XCIV.

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All is not right with him, who ill sustains         Retirement's silent hours. - Himself he flies,         Perchance from that insipid equipoise,         Which always with the hapless mind remains      That feels no native bias; never gains         One energy of will, that does not rise         From some external cause, to which he hies         From his own blank inanity. - When reigns,      With a strong, cultur'd mind, this wretched hate         To commune with himself, from thought that tells         Of some lost joy, or dreaded stroke of Fate      He struggles to escape; - or sense that dwells         On secret guilt towards God, or Man, with weight         Thrice dire, the self-exiling flight impels.

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