"The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom,Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom
Nothing is as tedious as the limping days,When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways,And ennui, sour ...
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