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 Rh The savage, subtle and strong,

Opposed me, and he fell:

But the savage learned from conflict past

To battle and succeed,

And the foolish desert came at last

To bloom indeed.

I halt not for the maimed,

I wait not for the blind;

My foot is never lamed,

Whoe’er may lag behind:

I hasten on, like the wind of God,

To the conquest He ordains:

Parting the human from the clod,

Undoing chains.