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-"Who is this man thou goest forth to see, That as a reed that quivereth in the wind Bends in his lowliness, but breaketh not for aye, That is but, as he says, a voice designed To preach the coming of a mightier mind, To make the paths more straight, the rough ways plain? Is he Elias? And be answereth no. Comes he to the vineyards of our land, to glean The precious, vintage, while ill fruits remain?"