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ENDEAVOR by CLINTON SCOLLARD

First Line: WE SAW HIM FROM OUR GUARDED WALL
Last Line: THAN NEVER TO HAVE DARED!
Subject(s): AMBITION; ICARUS; MYTHOLOGY - CLASSICAL;
WE saw him from our guarded wall
Tilt boldy at the sun,
And watched with awe his splendid fall
To blind oblivion.

Then sudden flashed the thought on us,
We who his lot had shared, --
Better to fail like Icarus
Than never to have dared!



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