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Who shall tell the story / As it was? / Write it with the heart's blood? / (Pale ink, alas! ) / Speak it with the soul's lips, / Or be dumb? / Tell me, singers fled, and / Song to come!
No answer; like a shell the silence curls, / And far within it leans a whisper out, / Breathless and inarticulate, and whirls / And dies as dies an ailing dread or doubt.