Clear Away the Cobwebs from Your Eyes

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Clear away the cobwebs from your eyes --
Old ways of thinking, doing, wanting, dreaming!
Learn that present truths are future lies,
Undone by what is now well past redeeming.
Make of life a vast experiment
Blessed by passion, toil, terror, pain,
Unafraid to scuttle what you meant,
Sure only that no failure is in vain.
Do this, and you will have a chance to be
A sailor at the edge of what you see,
Yet yearning for what no one can attain.

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Video Music: Clue Night. By Damiano Baldoni. Performed by
Damiano Baldoni at the Free Music Archive under an Attribution license.



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