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Yesterday and To-morrow
By John Boyle OReilly (18441890)
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The hands of Hope are empty, and the heart of Having is sad:
For the joy we take, in the taking dies; and the joy we Had is its ghost.
Now which is the better—the joy unknown, or the joy we have clasped and lost?