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The vision of a haloed host / That weep around an empty throne; / And, aureoles dark and angels dead, / Man with his own life stands alone.
'I am,' he says his bankrupt creed: / 'I am,' and is again a clod: / The sparrow starts, the grasses stir, / For he has said the name of God.