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/ Out of the past the dim leaves spoke to me / The thoughts of Pindar with a voice so sweet / Hyblaean bees seemed swarming my retreat / Around the reedy well of Poesy. / I closed the book. Then, knee to neighbor knee, / Sat with the soul of Plato, to repeat / Doctrines, till mine seemed some Socratic seat / High on the summit of Philosophy. / Around the wave of one Religion taught / Her first rude children. From the stars that burned / Above the mountained other, Science learned / The first vague lessons of the work she wrought. / Daughters of God, in whom we still behold / The Age of Iron and the Age of Gold.