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310 Coined in the common ore of thought: She had with rarer metal wrought.

For he spoke not as one weak- Witted, but not as men speak Whose wit is bolted under Greek

Concepts. In a waste of mind, Lesser and greater than the blind Bat of intellect can find,

Something moved:—the primal hoarse Voice of Matter that the Norse Gleemen heard in tarns and tors.

And still the Idiot speaks. And still His dark wild wings of language thrill Across my sight against my will.