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'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,--
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

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While we're on the subject of uplifting thoughts, it's time for some prose.

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"Real Heroes Work Here," proclaims the United Way banner hanging in the Great Hall of the SA Campus Centre.

It seems a bit hokey, a little naive. We no longer believe that the people working around us are heroes or that our society is at all heroic. Once upon a time we did believe in a land of heroes, not back in the dark ages but about 50 years ago.

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... and the final rousing words, some paragraphs down:

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Now, think of how you can pick up the standard they carried home -- that of a "land fit for heroes."

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I always get goosebumps when I read that last line.

[ November 18, 2002: Message edited by: DrConway ]

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. I dream things that never were and say, why not?"

[ November 19, 2002: Message edited by: josh ]