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"Even such my Poet! for thou still art mine!

Thou mightst have been, and now have calmly died,

A priest, and not a victim at the shrine;

Alas! yet was it all thy fault? I chide,

Perchance, myself within thee, and the fate

To which thy power was solely consecrate.

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