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 "When Reason beckons you to pause, You laugh and say that you know best; But what it is you know, you keep As dark as ingots in a chest.

"You laugh and answer, 'We are young; O leave us now, and let us grow.'— Not asking how much more of this Will Time endure or Fate bestow.

"Because a few complacent years Have made your peril of your pride, Think you that you are to go on Forever pampered and untried?

"What lost eclipse of history, What bivouac of the marching stars, Has given the sign for you to see Millenniums and last great wars?