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Rh Not unsolicited, sought by diligent feet,
 * By riddling fingers expanded, oft watched in growth

With brooding deep as the noon-ray's quickening wheat,
 * Ere touch'd, the pendulous flower of the plants of sloth,

The plants of rigidness, answered question and squeeze,
 * Revealing wherefore it bloomed uninviting, bent,

Yet making harmony breathe of life and disease,
 * The deeper chord of a wonderful instrument.

So passed he luminous-eyed for earth and the fates
 * We arm to bruise or caress us: his ears were charged

With tones of love in a whirl of voluble hates,
 * With music wrought of distraction his heart enlarged.

Celestial-shining, though mortal, singer, though mute,
 * He drew the Master of harmonies, voiced or stilled,

To seek him; heard at the silent medicine-root
 * A song, beheld in fulfilment the unfulfilled.