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"If Luther's day expand to Darwin's year," / "Shall that exclude the hope-foreclose the fear? "
Unmoved by all the claims our times avow, / The ancient Sphinx still keeps the porch of shade; / And comes Despair, whom not her calm may cow, / And coldly on that adamantine brow / Scrawls undeterred his bitter pasquinade.