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that man's creative mind hath wrought

Is wholly foreign to the mind of man:

He looks before and after; in his span

Of life infinities of life are caught,—

Brooding, mysterious, and travail-fraught,—

And near and distant answer, as they can,

Enkindled at the flame Promethean

Of world-embracing, heaven-illumined Thought!

Last night a woman played in Paris here

The rôle of Hamlet, each distinctive grace,

By genius all-subduing and sublime,