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"YE TOMBE OF YE POET CHAUCER" And say, "While London's Abbey stands

No less shall England's strength endure!"

Ay, though its old wall crumbling fall,

Shall last her song's sweet overture;

Some purling stream shall flow, be sure,

From out the ivied heap, to tell

That here the fount of English pure

Long slumbered well.

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