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Holding One’s Own
This age is designed to weary, Its wonders are trivial. Dressed resplendent for arrangement,As brided and widowed sorrows.Ill-fated days of blades and sheaths, Must give up strength for justice. Volumes unnamed and unwritten, Must not temper steel in blood,Nor the quill with celebrity,Or speak false immortality – Now that lies are wit. Stay your hands…