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Interludes and Undertones, or, Music at Twilight

By Charles Mackay
Mackay, Charles (1814-1889)
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XV. LIVING MEN.

I see the true men of to-day—
The great, the brave heroic souls—
Not as they pass me in the way
Amid the common human shoals;—
But with the eyes of future Time,
Their halos fixed, their wreaths empearl'd,
Sages, and wits, and bards sublime—
The benefactors of the world.
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