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Rh In spirit-worlds he trod alone,

But walked the earth unmarked, unknown.

The near by-stander caught no sound,—

Yet they who listened far aloof

Heard rendings of the skyey roof,

And felt, beneath, the quaking ground;

And his air-sown, unheeded words,

In the next age, are flaming swords.

In newer days of war and trade,

Romance forgot, and faith decayed,

When Science armed and guided war,

And clerks the Janus-gates unbar,

When France, where poet never grew,

Halved and dealt the globe anew,

, raised o'er joy and strife,

Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,

And brought Olympian wisdom down

To court and mart, to gown and town;