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Chapter 59 Seraph and Poet, The

The seraph sings before the manifesto God-One, and in the burning of the Seven, And with the full life of consummate Heaving beneath him like a mothers Warm with her first-borns slumber in that The poet sings upon the earth grave-riven, Before the naughty world, soon self-forgiven For wronging him,--and in the darkness prest From his own soul by worldly weights. Even so, Sing, seraph with the glory ! heaven is high; Sing, poet with the sorrow ! earth is low: The universes inward voices cry Amen to either song of joy and woe: Sing, seraph, --poet, --sing on equally!

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