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George Meredith - The Wisdom Of Eld
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We spend our lives in learning pilotage,
And grow good steersmen when the vessel`s crank!
Gap-toothed he spake, and with a tottering shank
Sidled to gain the sunny bench of Age.
It is the sentence which completes that stage;
A testament of wisdom reading blank.
The seniors of the race, on their last plank,
Pass mumbling it as nature`s final page.
These, bent by such experience, are the band
Who captain young enthusiasts to maintain
What things we view, and Earth`s decree withstand,
Lest dreaded Change, long dammed by dull decay,
Should bring the world a vessel steered by brain,
And ancients musical at close of day.
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