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the eastern sage.

"Thy child shall yet live if my Prince doth know
Three beings on earth who have ne'er felt woe,
Whose bosoms have never re-echoed a sigh
For the loved or the lost, who have long gone by."

And the Prince long sought, as the Sage had said,
But years flew by, and his heart's hope fled;
And he found 'twas a fruitless search at last;
And his voice was hush'd o'er the silent past.

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