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Tantalus - ZaunköniG - 17.06.2007 Tantalus There thrills a happiness through all desire. And aspiration – whatsoe’er its pain – Finds solace still in struggling to attain. The sorrow comes when men no more aspire Because their aim, and not the toil, proved vain. And he of old whose strength was doomed to tire In fruitless, endless, effort to acquire What most his soul was yearning to obtain Must still have felt his very need inspire The joy of hope, the consciousness of gain. ‘Tis when we grasp the prize which proves our bane And learn ‘twere happiness, could we refrain, That we shall find – as sated lusts expire -: Hell is attainment of all ill desire. |