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Nor jewelled phrase nor mere mellifluous rhyme

Reverberates aright, or ever shall,

One cadence of that infinite plain-song

Which is itself all music. Stronger notes

Than any that have ever touched the world

Must ring to tell it -- ring like hammer-blows,

Right-echoed of a chime primordial,

On anvils, in the gleaming of God's forge.

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