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Mourning in Vain

    When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
    By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended,
    To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
    Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
    What cannot be preserved when fortune takes,
    Patience her injury a mockery makes.
    The robb’d that smiles steals something from the thief;
    He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

    — William Shakespeare