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Rh Let trifling pipe be mute,

Fling by the languid lute:

Take down the trumpet and confront the Hour,

And speak to toil-worn nations from a tower—

Take down the horn wherein the thunders sleep,

Blow battles into men—call down the fire—

The daring, the long purpose, the desire;

Descend with faith into the Human Deep,

And ringing to the troops of right a cheer,

Make known the Truth of Man in holy fear;

Send forth thy spirit in a storm of song,

A tempest flinging fire upon the wrong. 93