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MARCUS AURELIUS

DUTY and courage were his stays ; through toil
Incessant, and through hard laborious hours
He strove to check the enervating powers
That flow unseen into the heart, and foil

All sweet desires, and make the soul recoil
Into herself, as when in icy showers
The tender petals of young opening flowers
Shrink from the gusts that ravel them and spoil ;

His gaze was on the highest mountain peaks,
Where first the light shines when the dawn appears ;
Through all vicissitudes he looked above,

And looking so, he overlived the freaks
Of human follies, conquered human fears,
And felt the strength of whom the gods approve.