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Bensdefinition
Student @ University of Ibadan
Student @ University of Ibadan
Weep not, youth
<p style="text-align: center; ">Weep not, Youth</p><p>Weep not fair youth, I pray</p><p>For this phase,</p><p>A short time only will it last.</p><p>This phase, a path across the furnace</p><p>This phase, a fiery trial across the furnace</p><p>This phase when travail is at its climax.</p><p><br/></p><p>Weep not, fair youth</p><p>But be brave and stand firm</p><p>For you are utterly cast, into the hearth</p><p>Into the potter's touch</p><p>To be moulded.</p><p>You are brought out from deep mire and refined into shining vessel</p><p>Into the hollow heart in crevices of lava veins you are cast </p><p>This phase, a path across the furnace</p><p>This phase, a fiery trial across the furnace</p><p>This phase when travail is at its climax.</p><p><br/></p><p>"Weep not, child", how long will that continue to be</p><p>This feeble being</p><p>Tossed around by the wind.</p><p>This pale being is not for the furnace</p><p>This pale being is not for the fiery path</p><p>This phase, a path across the furnace</p><p>This phase, a fiery trial across the furnace</p><p>This phase when travail is at its climax.</p><p>Why then fair youth, do you weep?</p>
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