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REALIZATION.
Self-education is the lifelong schoolOf inner Being. In our youth we live
The life of Sense: those gates, wide open, give
To Fancy's masquerade, Unreason's rule,
Free entrance; maskers, mummers, motley, fool,
With bells and rattles; strolling players; who thrive
On glamoured Youth, whom Pleasure doth contrive
To dance along and hoodwink, till bloods cool.
Then, one by one, this gay and tinsel rout
Reason thrusts out o' doors; to her high task
Herself addresses; solves Life's aim and doubt;
Strips off from Error's face her shifting mask;
And in the grace and light, brought fully out,
Of Truth's grand countenance, sublime doth bask!
Stones from The Quarry | ||