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 That he had for so long a time denied

Had found him now. He had offended them,

He had insulted and forsaken them,

And he was not forsaken. They had come,

And in their coming had remembered only

That they were messengers, who like himself

Had now no choice; and they were telling him this

In the last language of mortality,

Which has no native barrier but the grave.

Now it was theirs to sing and his to wear

The glory, although there was a partnership

Somewhere that a surviving grace in him

Remembered; for though the star from which they came

Shone far within the dark infinity

That was himself, he had not made it shine—