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Attainment

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Let me go back again. There is the road,     O memory! The humble garden lane     So young with me. Let me rebuild again     The start of faith and hope by that abode;     Amend with morning freshness all the code     Of youth's desire; remap my chart's demesne     With tuneful joy, and plan a far campaign     For better marches in ambition's mode.     Ah, no, my heart! More certain now the skies     For joy abide: the cage of tree and sod,     Horizons firm that faith and hope attain,     Far realms of innocence in children's eyes,     And hearts harmonious with the will of God:--     These might I miss if I were back again.

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