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     I GAINED it so,

     By climbing slow,

By catching at the twigs that grow

Between the bliss and me.

     It hung so high,

     As well the sky

     Attempt by strategy.

 

I said I gained it, —

     This was all.

Look, how I clutch it,

     Lest it fall,

And I a pauper go;

Unfitted by an instant’s grace

For the contented beggar’s face

I wore an hour ago.