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00:00 A DEGENERATE AGE by Emma Lazarus
00:08 Where is the man who has been tried and found strong and sound?
Where is the friend of reason and of knowledge?
I see only sceptics and weaklings.
00:22 I see only prisoners in the durance of the senses,
And every fool and every spendthrift
Thinks himself as great a master as Aristotle.
00:34 Think'st thou that they have written poems?
Call'st thou that a Song?
I call it the cackling of ravens.
00:44 The zeal of the prophet must free poesy
From the embrace of wanton youths.
My song I have inscribed on the forehead of Time,
They know and hate it--for it is lofty.
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