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Close it not yet—that graceful page, That page of many fancies, Which realise to common eyes The mind-create romances.

Here is the history of the Bell— A history containing Our actual world of hopes and fears, Rejoicing and complaining.

Thanks, charmed art, that thus can catch The poets’ wildest measure; And to the music of their page Can add another pleasure.