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The Suppliant

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Long have I beat with timid hands upon life’s leaden
door,
Praying the patient, futile prayer my fathers prayed
before,
Yet I remain without the close, unheeded and unheard,
And never to my listening ear is borne the waited word.
Soft o’er the threshold of the years there comes this
counsel cool:
The strong demand, contend, prevail; the beggar is a
fool!

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