George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
George Meredith
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George Meredith
George Meredith
Assured of worthiness we do not dread
Competitors; we rather give them hail
And greeting in the lists where we may fail:
Must, if we bear an aim beyond the head!
My betters are my masters: purely fed
By their sustainment I likewise shall scale
Some rocky steps between the mount and vale;
Meanwhile the mark I have and I will wed.
So that I draw the breath of finer air,
Station is nought, nor footways laurеl-strewn,
Nor rivals tightly belted for thе race.
Good speed to them! My place is here or there;
My pride is that among them I have place:
And thus I keep this instrument in tune.
Internal Harmony was written by George Meredith.