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Nature's own statesman, by experience taught,
He judged most wisely, and could act as well;
With quickest glance could read another's thought,
His own, the while, the keenest could not tell;
Warrior--with skill to lengthen, or combine,
Lead on, or back, the desultory line;
Hunter--he passed the trackless forest through,--
Now on the mountain trod, now launch'd the light canoe.