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Those are vulgar things we pay for, be they stones for crowns of kings; While the precious and the peerless are unpriced symbolic things.

Common debts are scored and cancelled, weighed and measured out for gold; But the debts from men to ages, their account is never told.

Always see, the noblest nations keep their highest prize unknown; Chæronea's deathless lion frowned above unlettered stone.

Ah, the Greeks knew! Come their victors honored from the sacred games, Under arches red with roses, flushed to hear their shouted names;