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CULLEN GOULDSBURY.
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The song of the ships is far to hear, the hum of the world is dead,
And lotus-life in a drowsy year our benison instead —
Why should we push the world along, live in a world of flame,
When the pace of the ox is steady and strong, and the end is just the same?

Cullen Gouldsbury.