What Is to Come

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1. WHAT is to come we know not. But we know
2. That what has been was good—was good to show,
3. Better to hide, and best of all to bear.
4. We are the masters of the days that were:
5. We have lived, we have loved, we have suffered . . . even so.
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7. Shall we not take the ebb who had the flow?
8. Life was our friend. Now, if it be our foe—
9. Dear, though it spoil and break us!—need we care
10. What is to come?