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If after all we should mistake,

And so renounce life for the sake

Of death and nothing else? You hear

Our friends we jeered at, send the jeer

Back to ourselves with good effect—

“There were my beetles to collect!

“My box—a trifle, I confess,

“But here I hold it, ne’ertheless!”

Poor idiots, (let us pluck up heart