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Gloomy grammarians in golden gowns, / Meekly you keep the mortal rendezvous, / Eliciting the still sustaining pomps / Of speech which are like music so profound / They seem an exaltation without sound. / Funest philosophers and ponderers, / Their evocations are the speech of clouds. / So speech of your processionals returns / In the casual evocations of your tread / Across the stale, mysterious seasons. These / Are the music of meet resignation; these / The responsive, still sustaining pomps for you / To magnify, if in that drifting waste / You are to be accompanied by more / Than mute bare splendors of the sun and moon.