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DISTANT AUTHORS

Their love of good; their rage at wrong; Their hours when struggling thought makes way;Their hours when fancy drifts to song Lightly and glad as bird-trills may;
All these are truths. And if as true More graceless scrutiny that reads,“These fruits amid strange husking grew;” “These lilies blossomed amongst weeds;”
Here no despoiling doubts shall blow, No fret of feud, of work-day jars.We know them but as friends may know, Or they are known beyond the stars.

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