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Transcription
with the imbeddings
like a head-piece,
what is its history?
Who lives there? Who
do the old to fulfill the
giant requirements
and fill the great
human destiny!
After all, earth and
sky, fields and tem-
ples are the grandest
poem, so grand if can
never be written in its
entirety, only here a distich,
two carol you may
sing. But the whole?
What soul could grasp it.
What intellect under-
stand it written?
The page is there out-
spread before us: but
who dare sullip it with