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Since I rose out of child-oblivion / I have walked in a world of many dreams, / And noble souls beside the shining streams / Of fancy have with beckonings led me on.
Their faces oft, mayhap, I could not see, / Only their waving hands and noble forms.
Sometimes there sprang between quick-gathered storms, / But always they came back again to me.
Women with smiling eyes and star-spun hair / Spake gentle things, bade me look back to view / The deeds of the great souls who climbed the stair
Immortal, and for whom God's manna grew: / Dante, Anacreon, Euripides, / And all who set rich wine upon the lees.