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The Life is mystery; the Light is blind;<br />
90The Truth beyond our reach both daunts<br />
and fades;<br />
The sheer perfection nowhere do we find;<br />
The ideal sleeps, a secret, in the shades.<br />
Therefore to be sincere is to be strong.<br />
Bare as it is, what glimmer hath the star;<br />
95The water tells the fountain's soul in song<br />
And voice of crystal flowing out afar.<br />
Such my intent was,-of my spirit pure<br />
To make a star, a fountain music-drawn,<br />
With horror of the thing called literature-<br />
100And mad with madness of the gloam and<br />
dawn.<br />
Of the blue twilight, such as gives the world<br />
Which the celestial ecstasies inspires,<br />
The haze and minor chord,-let flutes be<br />
heard!<br />
Aurora, daughter of the Sun,-sound, lyres!
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