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[Many for Poems care much, for Poesie little or nothing]
Many for Poems care much, for Poesie little or nothing;Story, character, reasoning, subtlety, eloquence, wit,
They find; the verse at most is merely taken as clothing
And decoration,—'tis well if they be not “bored” with it;
But the fine, the mystical, magical influence, all-involving,
Lifting, dissolving, reshaping, into music revolving,
Giving a life to the words, putting an atmosphere round them,
Of this no sense have they, and Poesie leaves where it found them.
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