Most ancient and honorable monks, benificent and sagacious, may it please yourselves to dwell upon this humble quesiton and cast a perl of your infinite wisdom.

file test1.pl:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
require 'test2.pl';
print $x;

file test2.pl:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $x = "this is it\n";
1;

>./test1.pl
Global symbol "$x" requires explicit package name at ./test1.pl line 4
+.
Execution of ./test1.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
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As you can see, most respected monks, "use strict" reports an error and halts execution. Without "use strict", the script will execute, but will still report an error. Is it possible to include a file in this manner and still execute without errors? Please show me the path to enlightenment so that I may correct the error of my ways.

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