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XVIII.
The saints who toiled to help the world's distress;The noble lords of thought and speech divine;
The prophets crying through Time's wilderness;
The vast discoveries, the inventions fine
That stamped upon the centuries a sign
Of grandeur,—all, like music thundered down
By stern cathedral bells, were silenced by thy frown.
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