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Rh First vengeance for old pain, and then

Beginning hope of better things,

Then swordblades for the sides of Kings

And corselets for the breasts of men.

And crowns and such like joys and gems,

And stars of honour for the pure,

Jewels of honour to endure,

Beautiful women's diadems.

And coulters, sevenfold-twinned, to rend,

And girders to uphold the tower,

Harness for unimagined power,

New ships to make the billows bend,

And stores of fire-compelling things

By which men dominate and pierce

The iron-imprisoned universe

Where angels lie with banded wings.