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But to stand on distant nodding terms with principle
    Has been a most unprofitable trick.
You may scan historic pages,
And right down throughout the ages
    Mere reflection never laid a single brick.

    For it's Graft—Toil—Work,
        It's performance that is needed in the land.
    Recognition by the student
   Of the principle is prudent,
        But it never yet has shifted any sand.
    And Hell is full of futile folk who scorned the verb to do,
    Who "recognized the principle" but failed to see it through.