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So weigh the matter carefully. Meanwhile
It may be of use and cannot be of harm
If I narrate to you before you start
Some of my own maturer thoughts and dreams—
Giving you not so much the outward acts
As the results of these; experiences
Wrought into thoughts, and thoughts made slowly ripe
By further thought,—till now at last, the Stage
Stands clear before me as it is, and as,
Please God, it one day will be. Listen then.