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His sickness increases from the remedies applied to cure it.
His sickness increases from the remedies applied to cure it.
 Mutually giving and receiving aid,
 They set each other off, like light and shade.  
 Mutually giving and receiving aid,
 They set each other off, like light and shade. 
 Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of 
wickedness.  
 Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of 
wickedness. 
 I'll potch at him some way;
 Or wrath or craft may get him.  
 I'll potch at him some way;
 Or wrath or craft may get him. 
 For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
 Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.  
 For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
 Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. 
Never less alone, than when alone.
Never less alone, than when alone.
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
 To his tuned spirit the wild heather-bells
 Ring Sabbath knells;
  The sod's a cushion for his pious read more 
 To his tuned spirit the wild heather-bells
 Ring Sabbath knells;
  The sod's a cushion for his pious want,
   And, consecrated by the heaven within it,
    The sky-blue pool a font. 
The truly noble mind has no resentments.
The truly noble mind has no resentments.