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[Ideal Truth, O Power serene]
Ideal Truth, O Power serene,The soul's delight, and virgin queen!
Without thee what were human life?
The Nations all, in peace or strife,
But ant-hills? Found in one man's breast,
Lo! there in wondrous germ the best
Of all that human force hath wrought,
The social frame, the realms of thought,
Pleasures eternal and sublime,
A world above the world of time.
Thou hast to mortal vision given
The strength to see almost to Heaven.
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