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TAKE NOT MY HAND AS MINE ALONE by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: That greater men shall reach
Subject(s): LEADERSHIP;

Take not my hand as mine alone''"
You do not trust to me''"
I hold the hand of greater men
Too far before to see.

Follow not me, who only trace
Stoop-head the prints of those
Our mighty predecessors, whom
The darknesses enclose.

I cannot lead who follow''"I
Who learn, am dumb to teach;
I can but indicate the goals
That greater men shall reach.



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