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AD ASTRA: 138 by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE

First Line: BEREFT OF GOD, IS AUGHT WORTH MAN'S DESIRE?
Last Line: REPAY THE GOLD OF HIS UNGARNER'D YOUTH
Subject(s): GOD; MANKIND; HUMAN RACE;

Bereft of God, is aught worth Man's desire?
Money?—the vulgar tyrant of the crowd!
Or, if to higher things he would aspire,
With larger mind and faculties endow'd,
His life to some ennobling service vow'd,
—Can glory won in the far quest of Truth
Repay the gold of his ungarner'd youth



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