Take Not My Hand as Mine Alone

Take not my hand as mine alone⁠—
  You do not trust to me⁠—
I hold the hand of greater men
  Too far before to see.

Follow not me, who only trace
  Stoop-head the prints of those
Our mighty predecessors, whom
  The darknesses enclose.

I cannot lead who follow⁠—I
  Who learn, am dumb to teach;
I can but indicate the goals
  That greater men shall reach.