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Theirs, theirs as much as thine,
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the destination-port triumphant.
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Steer then with good strong hand and wary eye.
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O helmsmen, though carriest great companions.
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How can I pierce the impenetrable blank of your future?
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I feel thy ominous greatness, evil as well as good.
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I watch thee advancing, absorbing the present,
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transcending the past.
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I see thy light lighting and thy shadow shadowing
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as if the entire globe.
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But I do not undertake to define thee,
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hardly can I comprehend thee."