In a youth’s translation which is kept back until a riper age, there is no such word which says fail.
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The youth who is in his lexicon and about to spring into a bright manhood, the word fail he knows not.
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To fail is impossible for youth in the lexicon which is reserved for it.
Alone, but with unbated zeal,
The horseman plied with scourge and steel;
For jaded now and spent with toil,
Embossed with foam and dark with soil,