Take Not My Hand as Mine Alone

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Take not my hand as mine alone --

You do not trust to me --

I hold the hand of greater men / Too far before to see.

Follow not me, who only trace / Stoop-head the prints of those / Our mighty predecessors, whom / The darknesses enclose.

I cannot lead who follow -- I

Who learn, am dumb to teach; / I can but indicate the goals / That greater men shall reach.

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