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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AD ASTRA: 73, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE
First Line: Self is thy basic creed, philosophy!
Last Line: No loftier sapience than this instil?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Self; Soul
First Line: Self is thy basic creed, philosophy!
Last Line: No loftier sapience than this instil?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Self; Soul
Self is thy basic creed, Philosophy!
—To make the Will invulnerably whole,
To glory in Man, god of the years to be!
His Will that would all thought, all power control.
How frail a superstructure for the Soul!
Can that Intelligence which made the Will
No loftier sapience than this instil?
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