 | Poems and dramas of George Cabot Lodge |  |
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Thus were our lives resolved! “The Dawn,” we said]
Thus were our lives resolved! “The Dawn,” we said,“Is somewhere since the light is everywhere;
Pinnacled in the universal air
The tower of thought, we must believe, shines red!”
By blind belief at all adventure led,
Thus were our lives resolved at last to dare.
Also we knew that up the endless stair
Socrates and some few were gone ahead.
But when at length we climbed into the light,
In wild alarm we saw how far it springs
Across death's void impassable atmosphere,—
Then, as our great resolve grew sick with fear,
We felt the freedom and the infinite
Ambition of the soul's expanded wings!
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