The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame Buy cheap, sell dear eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want Pay tithes for soul-insurance keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant.
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He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer.
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On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll On plastic clay and leathern scroll, Man wrote his thoughts the ages passed, And lo the Press was found at last.
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I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.
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Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
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