There were many who went in huddled procession,  
They knew not whither;  
But, at any rate, success or calamity  
Would attend all in equality.  
 
There was one who sought a new road.  
He went into direful thickets,  
And ultimately he died thus, alone;  
But they said he had courage.
Stephen Crane
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