'T is so much joy! 'T is so much joy!

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1. 'T is so much joy! 'T is so much joy!
2. If I should fail, what poverty!
3. And yet, as poor as I
4. Have ventured all upon a throw;
5. Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so
6. This side the victory!
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8. Life is but life, and death but death!
9. Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath!
10. And if, indeed, I fail,
11. At least to know the worst is sweet.
12. Defeat means nothing but defeat,
13. No drearier can prevail!
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15. And if I gain, -- oh, gun at sea,
16. Oh, bells that in the steeples be,
17. At first repeat it slow!
18. For heaven is a different thing
19. Conjectured, and waked sudden in,
20. And might o'erwhelm me so!