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XXV.
What didst thou for the studious sage who sawThrough nature's veils the great organic force,—
Who sought and found the all-pervading law
That holds the rolling planets in their course?
When didst thou fail to check the flowing source
Of truths whose waters needs must inundate
The theologic dikes that guarded thy estate?
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