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 PRELUDE

PART I

ART AND LIFE

the Poet unto the Seer:

How shall I learn to tell

What I know of Heaven and Hell?

I speak, but to ashes turn

The passions that in me burn.

I shout to the skies, but I hear

No answer from man or God.