Looking along the horizon's endless line, </br> Man seems a… - Joel Benton

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Looking along the horizon's endless line, </br> Man seems a pigmy in these realms of space; ... </br> Here are soft grasses, flowers of tender hue, </br> Palimpsests of the old and coming race.

Joel Benton

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(May 29, 1832 – September 15, 1911) was an American writer, poet and lecturer.

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