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Why, let them rail! God's full anointed ones / Have heard the world exclaim, "We know you not."
They who by their souls' travailing have brought / Us nearer to the wonder of the suns.
Yet, who can stay the passage of the stars?
Who can prevail against the thunder-sound?
The wire that flashes lightning to the ground / Diverts, but not its potency debars.
So, men may strike quick stabs at Caesar's worth, -- / They only make his life an endless force, / 'Scaped from its penthouse, flashing through the earth,
And 'whelming those who railed about his Gorse.
Men's moods disturb not those born truly great: / They know their end; they can afford to wait.