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Ah, Tell Them They Are Men!
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Ah, tell them they are men!
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
-- On a Distant Prospect of Eton College, Stanza 6
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Ye distant spires, ye antique towers.
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And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.
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They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
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Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play
No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day....
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain!
Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain!...
Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, Less pleasing when posse
The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast....
To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,-- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies?...
Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.
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The breezy call of incense-breathing morn.
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