“Who shall guess what I may be?
Who can tell my fortune to me?
For, bravest and brightest that ever was sung
May be — and shall be — the lot of the young!”

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

The Song of Sixteen, l. 1-4.
Ballads for the Times (1851)

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