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Read by the poet at The Public Ceremonial of The National Institute of Arts and Letters at Carnegie Hall, New York, January 18th, 1941.
Great Muse, that from this hall absent for long / Hast never been, / Great Muse of Song, / Colossal Muse of mighty Melody, / Vocal Calliope, / With thine august and contrapuntal brow / And thy vast throat builded for Harmony, / For the strict monumental pure design, / And the melodic line: / Be thou tonight with all beneath these rafters-be with me.