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THE MESS OF IT, by                    
First Line: The gods made a sorry old mess of it
Last Line: But left man to add love as the test of the truth.
Subject(s): Love; Youth


The gods made a sorry old mess of it—
The results we can't even guess of it—
When the caldron they mixed for the young world's youth;
The joy and the sorrow they cast indiscriminate,
The false from the true they did not eliminate,
But left man to add love as the test of the truth.





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