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_What vague traditions do the golden eves. / What legends do the dawns / Inscribe in fire on Heaven's azure leaves, / The red sun colophons? _
_What ancient Stories do the waters verse? / What tales of war and love / Do winds within the Earth's vast house rehearse, / God's stars stand guard above? -- _
_Would I could know them as they are expressed / In hue and melody! / And say, in words, the beauties they suggest. / Language their mystery! _
_And in one song magnificently rise, / The music of the spheres, / That more than marble should immortalize / My name in after years._