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 THE REFORMERS

Not in the camp his victory lies

Or triumph in the market-place,

Who is his Nation's sacrifice

To turn the judgment from his race.

Happy is he who, bred and taught

By sleek, sufficing Circumstance—

Whose Gospel was the apparelled thought,

Whose Gods were Luxury and Chance—

Sees, on the threshold of his days,

The old life shrivel like a scroll,

And to unheralded dismays

Submits his body and his soul;

The fatted shows wherein he stood

Foregoing, and the idiot pride,

That he may prove with his own blood

All that his easy sires denied—

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