Many mighty have fallen, Slept under the weight The very ones they called burdens Beguiled by the zest of youth The pride of an unusual exuberance They have borne a little more Than what a standard scale calls ‘enough’ What they lacked was the know-how   Innumerable and down trodden also Are the men that bore nothing And sunbathed on the beach of indolence They know not their fallen stance Nor is their hopeless end made known to them […]