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in discursive talk From household fountains never dry; The critic clearness of an eye, That saw thro' all the Muses' walk;

Seraphic intellect and force To seize and throw the doubts of man; Impassion'd logic, which outran The bearer in its fiery course;

High nature amorous of the good, But touch'd with no ascetic gloom; And passion pure in snowy bloom Thro' all the years of April blood;

A love of freedom rarely felt, Of freedom in her regal seat Of England, not the schoolboy heat, The blind hysterics of the Celt;