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If, in the woes of Actual Human Life—

If thou could'st see the serpent strife

Which the Greek Art has made divine in stone—

Could'st see the writhing limbs, the livid cheek,

Note every pang, and hearken every shriek

Of some despairing lost Laocoon,

The human nature would thyself subdue

To share the human woe before thine eye—

Thy cheek would pale, and all thy soul be true

To Man's great Sympathy.