O blessed letters! that combine in one
All ages past, and make one live with all,
By you we do confer with who are gone,
And the dead-living unto council call;
By you the unborn shall have communion
Of what we feel and what doth us befall.
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What good is like to this,
To do worthy the writing, and to write
Worthy the reading, and the world's delight?