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So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.
One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays.
One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays.
Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades!
Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!
Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades!
Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!
Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.
He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.
