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Toward the last / The truth of others was untruth to me;
The justice of others injustice to me;
Their reasons for death, reasons with me for life;
Their reasons for life, reasons with me for death;
I would have killed those they saved, / And save those they killed.
And I saw how a god, if brought to earth, / Must act out what he saw and thought, / And could not live in this world of men / And act among them side by side / Without continual clashes.
The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying --
Wherefore, O soul, whose wings are grown, / Soar upward to the sun!