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 I heard it whispered in the cryptic streets Where every sage the same dumb shadow meets:
 * "We are but words fallen from the lipe of Time

Which God, that we might understand, repeats."

Another said: "The creeping worm hath shown, In her discourse on human flesh and bone,
 * That Man was once the bed on which she slept—

The walking dust was once a thing of stone."