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With patient toil from day to day	A
The printed page he scann'd	B
The page of learned book or sheet	C
With news from foreign land	B
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And people thought him wond'rous wise	D
And he himself was vain	E
Of all the knowledge he had stor'd	F
Within his jaded brain	E
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What other men were working at	G
He knew from day to day	A
But never dream'd his barren task	H
Was only idle play	A
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Fill'd with the thoughts of other minds	I
His words were barren dry	J
He seldom coin'd a thought himself	K
He had so many by	J
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And when he found himself alone	L
Where self could only think	M
He found the store within his brain	E
A weight to make him sink	M
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What he had always thought were ends	N
He saw were only means	O
And for his urgent purpose now	P
Were worth a row of beans	O
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With loud and bitter voice he curs'd	Q
Newspapers books and all	R
That weaken'd his own manhood's force	S
And drove him to the wall	R
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He saw that man must be himself	K
Or he will live in vain	E
That nothing in this world can take	T
The place of his own brain	E
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The man who rides but never walks	U
Should surely never pout	V
If in a race he falls behind	W
Where horses are rul'd out	V
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The man who thinks by press or book	X
No matter how profound	Y
Will find a grave some day beneath	Z
An ink and paper mound	Y

Thomas Frederick Young

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