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TO A PUBLICIST AND SAGE by WILLIAM WATSON

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First Line: YOU THAT HAVE FOUND ALL BEING A BLAZE OF / CLEARNESS
Last Line: WHO ONCE HAS SIGHTED TRUTH, THOUGH FROM THE MIRE.
Subject(s): TRUTH;
YOU that have found all Being a blaze of clearness:
You that with loves and hates in blest control,
On the sleek lawns of life ignore the nearness
Of the unextinct volcano of man's soul:

Pure, almost to eradicating gender:
Somewhere in vales of innocence nursed apart:
Tempering our Night with your large spirit's splendour,
And full of fire as a tomato's heart:

Still be yourself; still touch with tip of finger
The daunting themes Thought pales at, from its birth;
And never ev'n for one rash moment linger
@3Anywhere near the roots@1 of aught on earth.

Go your chaste way, far though it be from @3my@1 way;
Take your rewards, and have your heart's desire;
But richer is the beggar on the highway
Who once has sighted Truth, though from the mire.



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