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And he?—Before him burned the steadfast light Their hands had held to guide his way aright; By it he reached the summit of his aim, The goal of his endeavor, and became The idol of his day. But they who sound His fame remember not the lives uncrowned On which he stands—the narrow, obscure ways Two women trod to wreathe his name with praise.