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  • Is there a rarer being,
    Is there a fairer sphere
    Where the strong are not unseeing,
    And the harvests are not sere;
    Where, ere the seasons dwindle
    They yield their due return;
    Where the lamps of knowledge kindle
    While the flames of youth still burn?

    Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900). “An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century”, Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, [190-]