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For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.
My salad days, When I was green in judgment, cold in blood, To say as I said then.
He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man.
Growing up brought responsibilities, he found. Events did not rhyme quite as he had thought. Nature’s logic was too horrid for him to care for. That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony.
If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
