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Lone Founts

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Though fast youth's glorious fable flies,     View not the world with worldling's eyes;     Nor turn with weather of the time.     Foreclose the coming of surprise:     Stand where Posterity shall stand;     Stand where the Ancients stood before,     And, dipping in lone founts thy hand,     Drink of the never-varying lore:     Wise once, and wise thence evermore.

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