Declare

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For the most if not for the best of men:

You were born (I suppose) on a certain day:

So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?

Only this: or at least, if more,

You must know, not think it, and learn, not speak:

There is truth to be found on the unknown shore,

And many will find what few would seek.

J.K. Stephen, inaccurately quoted in a letter from

St. John Philby to his son, Kim Philby, March 15, 1932

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?

Declare, if thou hast understanding.

Job 38:4

… from behind that craggy steep till then

The horizon’s bound, a huge peak, black and huge,

As if with voluntary power instinct,

Upreared its head. I struck and struck again,

And growing still in stature the grim shape

Towered up between me and the stars, and still,

For so it seemed, with purpose of its own

And measured motion like a living thing,

Strode after me.

—William Wordsworth, The Prelude, 381–389