III. THE POET'S CHART

"WHERE shall I find my light?"

"_Turn from another's track:

Whether for gain or lack,

Love but thy natal right.

Cease to follow withal,

Though on thine up-led feet

Flakes of the phosphor fall.

Oracles overheard

Are never again for thee,

Nor at a magian's knee

Under the hemlock tree,

Burns the illumining word._"

"Whence shall I take my law?"

"_Neither from sires nor sons,

Nor the delivered ones,

Holy, invoked with awe.

Rather, dredge the divine

Out of thine own poor dust,

Feebly to speak and shine.

Schools shall be as they are:

Be thou truer, and stray

Alone, intent, and away,

In a savage wild to obey

Some dim primordial star._"

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