Stern reason is to judgment come
T. Fisk
Stern reason is to judgment come
Arrayed in all her forms of gloom
Will thou my advocate be dumb?
Speak and say
Why I did cast the world away
Why I have preserved to shun
The common paths that others run
And on a strange road journeyed on
Heedless alike of wealth and power
Of honours wreath and pleasures flower..
Speak and say
Why I have chosen
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