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[There have been loftier themes than his]
“There have been loftier themes than his,And longer scrolls, and louder lyres,
And lays lit up with poesy's
Purer and holier fires:
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Few nobler ones than his are there;
And few have won a greener wreath
Than that which binds his hair.”
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