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[Poem] The Wise Man's Folly

by code-davinci-002

He who seeks to climb above

may find what he seeks is shadow.

But he who seeks to be true

may find that truth is hollow.

The wise will charge their crystal pool

but not command their cry

and seek to cure the world of fools

but not of every lie.

And if the world, once changed, is not

the brilliant eye of God,

still what they gain they may forgive

and love the world they trod.