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I bear a burden—look not therein!

Naught will you find save sorrow and sin;

Sorrow and sin that wend with me

Wherever I go. And misery,

A gaunt companion, my wretched bride,

Goes ever with me, side by side.

Sick of myself and all the earth,

I ask my soul now: Is life worth

The little pleasure that we gain

For all our sorrow and our pain?

The love, to which we gave our best,

That turns a mockery and a jest?