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Now and then he swears to begin a better life.

But when the night comes on with its own counsels,

its own compromises, and with its promises:

but when the night comes on with a power of its own,

of a body that desires and demands, he returns,

lost, once more to the same fateful pleasure.

[1905; >1915]