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Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry - Morituri Salutamus
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Type of Spiritual Experience
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – from The Poems of Longfellow [printed about 1875]
from Morituri Salutamus
Study yourselves; and most of all note well
Wherein kind nature meant you to excel
Not every blossom ripens into fruit
Minerva, the inventress of the flute,
Flung it aside, when she her face surveyed
Distorted in a fountain as she played
The unlucky Marsyas found it, and his fate
Was one to make the bravest hesitate