XXVII

"And these not always vainly on the crowd

Have fallen; some are cherished now, and some,

In mystic phrases wrapped as in a shroud,

Wait the diviner, who as yet is dumb

Upon the breast of God--the gate of birth

Closed on a dreamless ignorance of earth.

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