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"Go, teach the drone of saintly haunts, "Whose cell's the sepulchre of time;

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Though many a holy hymn he chaunts, "His life is one continued crime.

"And bear them hence, the plant, the flower;

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"No symbols those of systems vain!

They have the duties of their hour;

"Some bird, some insect to sustain."

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