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Where are the Poets, unto whom belong / The Olympian heights; whose singing shafts were sent / Straight to the mark, and not from bows half bent, / But with the utmost tension of the thong? / Where are the stately argosies of song, / Whose rushing keels made music as they went / Sailing in search of some new continent, / With all sail set, and steady winds and strong? / Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught / In schools, some graduate of the field or street, / Who shall become a master of the art, / An admiral sailing the high seas of thought, / Fearless and first and steering with his fleet / For lands not yet laid down in any chart.