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Rh Of beauty, hinting of yet rarer store;

And ever with unfathomable eyes,

Which baffingly entice,

Still strangely does Adonis draw.

And life once over, who shall tell the rest?

Life is, of all we know, God's best.

What imps these eagles then, that they

Fling disrespect on life by that proud way

In which they soar above our lower clay.

Pretense of wonderment and doubt unblest:

In Cushing's eager deed was shown

A spirit which brave poets own—

That scorn of life which earns life's crown;

Earns, but not always wins; but he—

The star ascended in his nativity.