<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348175" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Clearer Self</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before me grew the human soul,<br>And after I am dead and gone,<br>Through grades of effort and control<br>The marvellous work shall still go on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each mortal in his little span<br>Hath only lived, if he have shown<br>What greatness there can be in man<br>Above the measured and the known;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How through the ancient layers of night,<br>In gradual victory secure,<br>Grows ever with increasing light<br>The Energy serene and pure:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Soul, that from a monstrous past,<br>From age to age, from hour to hour,<br>Feels upward to some height at last<br>Of unimagined grace and power.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though yet the sacred fire be dull,<br>In folds of thwarting matter furled,<br>Ere death be nigh, while life is full,<br>O Master Spirit of the world,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grant me to know, to seek, to find,<br>In some small measure though it be,<br>Emerging from the waste and blind,<br>The clearer self, the grander me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Archibald+Lampman">Archibald Lampman</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348175" data-title="The Clearer Self de Archibald Lampman" data-description="Before me grew the human soul, And after I am dead and gone, Through grades of effort and control The marvellous work shall still go on. Each mortal in his little span Hath only lived, if he have shown What greatness there can be in man Above the..."></div> </div> </div>

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