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WHAT man may learn, what man may do, / Of right or wrong of false or true, / While, skipper-like, his course he steers / Through nine and twenty mingled years, / Half misconceived and half forgot, / So much I know and practise not.
Old are the words of wisdom, old / The counsels of the wise and bold: / To close the ears, to check the tongue, / To keep the pining spirit young; / To act the right, to say the true, / And to be kind whate'er you do.
Thus we across the modern stage / Follow the wise of every age; / And, as oaks grow and rivers run / Unchanged in the unchanging sun, / So the eternal march of man / Goes forth on an eternal plan.