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Like a slave who longs for the shadow,
    and like labourers who look for their wages,
so I am allotted months of emptiness,
    and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
When I lie down I say, “When shall I rise?”
    But the night is long,
    and I am full of tossing until dawn.

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