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Rh And there vitality, there, there solely in song,
 * Resides, where Earth and her uses to men, their needs,

Their forceful cravings, the theme are: there is it strong,
 * The Master said: and the studious eye that reads,

(Yea, even as Earth to the crown of Gods on the mount),
 * In links divine with the lyrical tongue is bound.

Pursue thy craft: it is music drawn of a fount
 * To spring perennial; well-spring is common ground.

Melampus dwelt among men: physician and sage,
 * He served them, loving them, healing them; sick or maimed,

Or them that frenzied in some delirious rage
 * Outran the measure, his juice of the woods reclaimed.

He played on men, as his master, Phoebus, on strings
 * Melodious: as the God did he drive and check,

Through love exceeding a simple love of the things
 * That glide in grasses and rubble of woody wreck.