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Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950). Spoon River Anthology. 1916.

122. Alexander Throckmorton

IN youth my wings were strong and tireless,

But I did not know the mountains.

In age I knew the mountains

But my weary wings could not follow my vision—

Genius is wisdom and youth.