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XX.
And yet, because there lurked some elementOf truth within the doctrine,—to man's need
Some fitness in the form; since more was meant
And more expressed than in the accepted creed,—
The artist's genius giving far less heed
To formulas than to his own ideal,—
The hand and heart wrought works the world has stamped as real.
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