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Look not thou on beauty’s charming, —

Sit thou still when kings are arming, —

Taste not when the wine-cup glistens, —

Speak not when the people listens, —

Stop thine ear against the singer, —

From the red gold keep thy finger, —

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,

Easy live and quiet die.