“So I go to the long adventure, lifting
My face to the far, mysterious goals,
To the last assize, to the final sifting
Of gods and stars and souls.”

Source: The Shoes of Happiness, and Other Poems (1913), The Crowning Hour, II

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American poet 1852–1940

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