Maxioms by Robert William Service
 And each forgets, as he strips and runs
 With a brilliant, fitful pace,
  It's the steady, quiet, read more 
 And each forgets, as he strips and runs
 With a brilliant, fitful pace,
  It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
   Who win in the lifelong race.
    And each forgets that his youth has fled,
     Forgets that his prime is past,
      Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
       In the glare of the truth at last. 
 The lonely sunsets flare forlorn
 Down valleys dreadly desolate;
  The lonely mountains soar in scorn
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 The lonely sunsets flare forlorn
 Down valleys dreadly desolate;
  The lonely mountains soar in scorn
   As still as death, as stern as fate.