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1882–1935

I am alone: even ranked with multitudes...

Frederic Manning

I am alone: even ranked with multitudes: And they alone, each man. So are we free. For some few friends of me, some earth of mine,

Some shrines, some dreams I dream, some hopes that emerge From the rude stone of life vaguely, and tend Toward form in me: the progeny of dreams I father; even this England which is mine

Whereof no man has seen the loveliness As with mine eyes: and even too, my God Whom none have known as I: for these I fight, For mine own self, that thus in giving self

Prodigally, as a mere breath in the air, I may possess myself, and spend me so Mingling with earth, and dreams, and God: and being In them the master of all these in me,

Perfected thus. Fight for your own dreams, you.

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