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CIVILIZATION
The savage, subtle and strong,
Opposed me, and he fell:
But the savage learned from conflict past
To battle and succeed,
And the foolish desert came at last
To bloom indeed.
I halt not for the maimed,
I wait not for the blind;
My foot is never lamed,
Whoe’er may lag behind:
I hasten on, like the wind of God,
To the conquest He ordains:
Parting the human from the clod,
Undoing chains.
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