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Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918.

91. Truth

THE HERO first thought it

To him ’twas a deed:

To those who retaught it,

A chain on their speed.

The fire that we kindled,

A beacon by night,

When darkness has dwindled

Grows pale in the light.

For life has no glory

Stays long in one dwelling,

And time has no story

That’s true twice in telling.

And only the teaching

That never was spoken

Is worthy thy reaching,

The fountain unbroken.