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VOTIVE TABLETS: WISDOM AND PRUDENCE by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

First Line: WOULDST THOU THE LOFTIEST HEIGHT OF WISDOM GAIN?
Last Line: NOT THAT TO WHICH THE BOLD WAVE WAFTS THEE O'ER!
Subject(s): WISDOM;

WOULDST thou the loftiest height of Wisdom gain?
On to the rashness, Prudence would disdain;
The purblind see but the receding shore,
Not that to which the bold wave wafts thee o'er!



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