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Even in a palace, life may be led well!
So spake the imperial sage, purest of men,
Marcus Aurelius. But the stifling den
Of common life, where, crowded up pell - mell,
Our freedom for a little bread we sell,
And drudge under some foolish master`s ken
Who rates us if we peer outside our pen -
Match`d with a palace, is not this a hell?
Even in a palace! On his truth sincere,
Who spoke these words, no shadow ever came;
And when my ill - school`d spirit is aflame
Some nobler, ampler stage of life to win,
I`ll stop, and say: "There were no succor here!
The aids to noble life are all within."
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