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 :Or mild surprising poetess,
 * Some Sappho in a mood sublime
 * Or Pindar freed and fetterless,
 * In a far island in far seas
 * Shall send their sorrow down the breeze.

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 * O shining servant of the evening star
 * Whom no soft footfall of Lethean song
 * Delighted, but a strong celestial war
 * To batter down the gates of earthly wrong,
 * To thee old Rhea yielded up her foison,
 * Thou rash knight-errant of heroic love,
 * That dreams and trances, being most vital poison
 * To whoso looks but dares not live above,
 * For thee, who wast more bold,
 * Might lead to earth along light chains of gold,
 * Lest some rebellious airs of spirit
 * Should blow each image into windy space
 * Nor leave it vocal, to inherit
 * The toil and triumph of our mortal race.
 * O thou hast shown us legions in the skies,
 * And passed the earth before us in review
 * Till shadows came and went before our eyes,
 * And shafts of dim desire pierced us through,
 * And draughts of joyous day
 * And winds that calmly blew

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