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EVERYMAN
Others may far outstrip thee:
Some by right
And other some perchance by lucky hap;
Or through sheer craft of knowing how to play
A game they've held in sight
Up from youth's earliest day,
Intent the prize—no matter how't may be—
Should drop into their lap.
Some by right
And other some perchance by lucky hap;
Or through sheer craft of knowing how to play
A game they've held in sight
Up from youth's earliest day,
Intent the prize—no matter how't may be—
Should drop into their lap.
I give to thee no counsel,
Friend, and cry—
“Pass heedless of them vexing not thy mind
With scorn, or anger, or disdainful word,
Envying their seat on high:
Not once, not once be heard
That whispered sneer of—‘Fair enought the shell!
Blank emptiness behind!’”
Friend, and cry—
“Pass heedless of them vexing not thy mind
With scorn, or anger, or disdainful word,
Envying their seat on high:
Not once, not once be heard
That whispered sneer of—‘Fair enought the shell!
Blank emptiness behind!’”
Yet are they very brethren:
Let them go
Through the world onward—it is theirs as thine:
They too must pay their price. O be content
Thyself but this to know—
Whatever soul is spent
Straining towards Truth and Beauty among men
Drinks of God's rarest wine.
Let them go
Through the world onward—it is theirs as thine:
They too must pay their price. O be content
Thyself but this to know—
Whatever soul is spent
Straining towards Truth and Beauty among men
Drinks of God's rarest wine.
May 4th, 1920.
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