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THE CONFIDENT SCIENTIST by ALEXIS

First Line: DISCOVERY ATTENDS ON EVERY QUEST
Last Line: THIS COMMON HOME TO WHICH WE'RE BORN, DEFY THEM?
Subject(s): SCIENCE; SCIENTISTS;
DISCOVERY attends on every quest,
Except for renegades who shirk the toil.
Now certain men have pushed discovery
Into the sphere of heaven. Some part they know, --
How planets rise and set and wheel about,
And of the sun's eclipse. If men have probed
Worlds far remote, can problems of this earth,
This common home to which we're born, defy them?



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