Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course. - George Meredith

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Earth, the mother of all,
Moves on her stedfast way,
Gathering, flinging, sowing.
Mortals, we live in her day,
She in her children is growing.

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And if I drink oblivion of a day,
So shorten I the stature of my soul.

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All wisdom's armoury this man could wield

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