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PARNASSUS
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On those two known peaks they stand ever spreading and heightening;Poet, that evergreen laurel is blasted by more than lightning!Look, in their deep double shadow the crown’d ones all disappearing!Sing like a bird and be happy, nor hope for a deathless hearing!‘Sounding for ever and ever?’ pass on! the sight confuses—These are Astronomy and Geology, terrible Muses!
iii.If the lips were touch’d with fire from off a pure Pierian altar,
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