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To each progressive soul there comes a day          When all things that have pleased and satisfied     Grow flavourless, the springs of joy seem dried.          No more the waters of youth's fountains play;     Yet out of reach, tiptoeing as they may,          The more mature and higher pleasures hide.     Life, like a careless nurse, fails to provide          New toys for those the soul has cast away.     Upon a strange land's border all alone,          Awhile it stands dismayed and desolate.     Nude too, since its old garments are outgrown;          Till clothed with strength befitting its estate,     It grasps at length those raptures that are known          To souls who learn to labour, and to wait.

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"To each progressive soul there comes a day..."

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