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CIVILIZATION

Old as the race of man,
Young as the child new-born,
From glooms Plutonian
I mount to paths of morn;
And as I move o'er vale and hill,
Before me flees the night,
For on into the darkness still
I bear my light.


The desert stayed me long
Its fancied worth to tell;

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