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That, like a planet through the heavens straying, Outlives the wreck of time!

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)

Willing misery Outlives incertain pomp, is crown'd before; The one is filling still, never complete; The other, at high wish: best state, contentless, Hath a distracted and most wretched being, Worse than the worst, content.

From Timon of Athens by Shakespeare, William