Myself, this lighted room,
What are we but a
murmurous
pool of rain?
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Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely--flowers,
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
Is the
sunshine
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But then strange gleams shot through the grey-deep
eyes
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troubled
him.
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And I commanded the Great deep to hide her in his hand
Till she became a little weeping Infant a span long
I carried her in my bosom as a man carries a lamb
I loved her I gave her all my soul & my delight
I hid her in soft gardens & in secret bowers of Summer
Weaving mazes of delight along the sunny Paradise
Inextricable labyrinths, She bore me sons & daughters
And they have taken her away & hid her from my sight
They have
surrounded
me with walls of iron & brass, [I die] O Lamb {According to Erdman's edition, the words "I die" were erased and replaced with "O Lamb.
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A word then, (for I will conquer it,)
The word final,
superior
to all,
Subtle, sent up--what is it?
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I suppose, Pierre Bon-Bon, you
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By all that lights our daily life
Or works our lifelong woe,
From
Boileaugunge
to Simla Downs
And those grim glades below,
Where, heedless of the flying hoof
And clamour overhead,
Sleep, with the grey langur for guard
Our very scornful Dead,
If you love me as I love you
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But heaven in thy
creation
did decree
That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell;
Whate'er thy thoughts, or thy heart's workings be,
Thy looks should nothing thence, but sweetness tell.
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' 'As the seed waits eagerly watching for its flower
and fruit, anxious its little soul looks out into the clear expanse
to see if hungry winds are abroad with their
invisible
array, so man
looks out in tree, and herb, and fish, and bird, and beast, collecting
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It was with their own
national
arms,
and in their own national battle array, that they had overcome
weapons and tactics long believed to be invincible.
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and Wotton's 'O Faithless World' to Robert Wisedom.
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A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the
strength
has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
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Spring's warm look has unfettered the fountains,
Brooks go tinkling with silvery feet;
Hope's bright
blossoms
the valley greet;
Weakly and sickly up the rough mountains
Pale old Winter has made his retreat.
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I am out of life; I am rolled up, and yet,
Hedgehog
although
I am, I'll not unroll
For you, King's dog!
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Certitude
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
If I hear you I'm sure to understand you
If you smile it's the better to enter me
If you smile I will see the world entire
If I embrace you it's to widen myself
If we live everything will turn to joy
If I leave you we'll
remember
each other
In leaving you we'll find each other again.
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They pass before me, these Eyes full of light,
Eyes made magnetic by some angel wise;
The holy
brothers
pass before my sight,
And cast their diamond fires in my dim eyes.
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Mine by the right of the white
election!
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And since the body's maidenhood
Alone were neither rare nor good
Unless with it I gave to you
A spirit still untrammeled, too,
Take my dreams and take my mind
That were
masterless
as wind;
And "Master!
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Sara Teasdale |
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The stars, the elements, and Heaven have made
With blended powers a work beyond compare;
All their consenting influence, all their care,
To frame one perfect
creature
lent their aid.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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He did not even seem to know
I watched him gliding through the
vitreous
deep.
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New York
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A DEDICATION TO
A VOLUME OF EARLY POEMS
WHILE I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes,
My heart would brim with dreams about the times
When we bent down above the fading coals;
And talked of the dark folk, who live in souls
Of passionate men, like bats in the dead trees;
And of the wayward twilight companies,
Who sigh with mingled sorrow and content,
Because their blossoming dreams have never bent
Under the fruit of evil and of good;
And of the embattled flaming multitude
Who rise, wing above wing, flame above flame,
And, like a storm, cry the Ineffable Name,
And with the
clashing
of their sword blades make
A rapturous music, till the morning break,
And the white hush end all, but the loud beat
Of their long wings, the flash of their white feet.
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þæs þe = _because_,
especially
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Paris could not lay the fold
Belted down with emerald;
Venice could not show a cheek
Of a tint so
lustrous
meek.
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Turnus is there, and amid the
heat and outcry at the slaughter
redoubles
his terrors, crying that
Teucrians are bidden to the kingdom, that a Phrygian race is mingling
its taint with theirs, and he is thrust out of their gates.
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First were but few simple dwellings here, suddenly sunlight discovered
Nations enlivening hills teeming with
fortunate
thieves.
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O blisful light of whiche the bemes clere 1
Adorneth
al the thridde hevene faire!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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_ O) _secum ut
meditare
querunt_ ?
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"Or, haply, how if this
contrarious
West,
That me by turns hath starved, by turns hath fed,
Embraced, disgraced, beat back, solicited,
Have no fixed heart of Law within his breast,
Or with some different rhythm doth e'er contest
Nature in the East?
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Sidney Lanier |
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Come, you are fair, and should be seen
While you are in your
sprightful
green:
And what though you had been embraced
By me--were you for that unchaste?
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Robert Herrick |
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Ide," it
is not impossible that the poems now
republished
in this collection may
be by the author of "The Raven.
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Hope, memory, love:
Hope for fair morn, and love for day,
And memory for the evening gray
And
solitary
dove.
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Breathing such vasty warfare, they contend
In balanced strife the one with other still
Concerning
mighty issues,--though indeed
The fire was once the more victorious,
And once--as goes the tale--the water won
A kingdom in the fields.
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THE TIGER
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful
symmetry?
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All Elfland's
mortgaged!
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"O Sorrow, 160
Why dost borrow
The mellow ditties from a
mourning
tongue?
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A clump of bushes stands--a clump of hazels,
Upon their very top there sits an eagle,
And upon the bushes' top--upon the hazels,
Compress'd within his claw he holds a raven,
And its hot blood he
sprinkles
on the dry ground;
And beneath the bushes' clump--beneath the hazels,
Lies void of life the good and gallant stripling;
All wounded, pierc'd and mangled is his body.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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my conscience and
internal
peace.
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Milton |
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And in thy valleys,
Agiochook!
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Emerson - Poems |
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1911
Challenge The Century Company 1914
"--and Other Poets" Henry Holt and Company 1916
The Poems of
Heinrich
Heine Henry Holt and Company 1917
These Times Henry Holt and Company 1917
Including Horace Harcourt, Brace and Co.
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American Poetry - 1922 |
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] Unuk-(ki) ri-bi-tim [22]
ha-as-si-nu na-di-i-ma
e-li-su pa-ah- ru
ha-as-si-nu-um-ma sa-ni bu-nu-su
a-mur-su-ma ah-ta-ta a-na-ku
a-ra-am-su-ma ki-ma as-sa-tim
a-ha-ap-pu-up el-su
el-ki-su-ma as-ta-ka-an-su
a-na a-hi-ia
um-mi
iluGilgamish
mu-da-at ka-la-ma
[iz-za-kar-am a-na iluGilgamish]
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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At the time of sunset they
seem
literally
tipped with flame.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Rilke - Poems |
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I lived upon the mercy of the fields,
And oft of cruelty the sky accused;
On hazard, or what general bounty yields,
Now coldly given, now utterly refused,
The fields I for my bed have often used:
But, what afflicts my peace with keenest ruth
Is, that I have my inner self abused,
Foregone
the home delight of constant truth,
And clear and open soul, so prized in fearless youth.
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Rilke - Poems |
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And as you left, suspired
confused
and jaded
In sighful accents the deserted glade.
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107, 1262) derives all the demons,
eotens, elves, and
dreadful
sea-beasts from the race of Cain.
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Yet to be ne'er
fulfilled
before thy fire's ardours have risen!
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Voi
cittadini
mi chiamaste Ciacco:
per la dannosa colpa de la gola,
come tu vedi, a la pioggia mi fiacco.
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Man, like the generous vine, supported lives;
The
strength
he gains is from the embrace he gives.
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Heaven
prepares
good men with crosses; but no ill can
happen to a good man.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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But I'll
suppress
a secret that touches you.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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The Bellman perceived that their spirits were low,
And
repeated
in musical tone
Some jokes he had kept for a season of woe--
But the crew would do nothing but groan.
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Saveliitch
lay
prostrate at the feet of Pugatchef.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Ye may jist say, though (for it's God's thruth), that afore I
left hould of the flipper of the spalpeen (which was not till afther her
leddyship's futman had kicked us both down the stairs), I giv'd it such a
nate little broth of a squaze as made it all up into
raspberry
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"
The
momentary
shift of my eyes had broken the clear current.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Outward, lambren semen we,
Fulle of goodnesse and of pitee,
And inward we,
withouten
fable, 7015
Ben gredy wolves ravisable.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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BOOK IV
ARGUMENT
Telemachus, with Pisistratus, arrives at the palace of Menelaus, from
whom he receives some fresh
information
concerning the return of the
Greecians, and is in particular told on the authority of Proteus, that
his father is detained by Calypso.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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_Saugh-woodies_, withies, made of willows, now
supplanted
by ropes
and chains.
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Robert Forst |
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Does he still think his error
pardonable?
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Yet my own sad fate
Doth with
increasing
anguish move my heart
To steal the image, sacred and rever'd,
Confided to my care, and him deceive
To whom I owe my life and destiny!
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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She danc'd along with vague, regardless eyes,
Anxious her lips, her breathing quick and short:
The hallow'd hour was near at hand: she sighs
Amid the timbrels, and the throng'd resort
Of
whisperers
in anger, or in sport;
'Mid looks of love, defiance, hate, and scorn,
Hoodwink'd with faery fancy; all amort, 70
Save to St.
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Keats |
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Soon as he saw me, "Hither haste," he cried,
"O
Meliboeus!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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" If the last part of this statement had read
"by those who can be
contented
with _prose_ translations of good poetry,"
the position would have been nearer the truth.
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Her grace, smiles, slights, her words in order set;
Her hair
dispersed
or in a golden net;
Her eyes inflaming with a light divine
So burn my heart, I dare no more repine.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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FUNFTER:
Du
uberlustiger
Gesell,
Juckt dich zum drittenmal das Fell?
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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A Heaven, which
childhood
represents on earth.
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Hugo - Poems |
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And
threaten
Hyde to raise a greater dust.
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Marvell - Poems |
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While nature to his birth presents
This masque of
quarrelling
elements,
A numerous fleet of cormorants black,
That sailed insulting o'er the wrack,
Received into their cruel care.
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Marvell - Poems |
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THE BLUES:
A
LITERARY
ECLOGUE.
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Byron |
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Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen hither O
Hymenaeus!
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Catullus - Carmina |
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And the
handkerchief
of French lace
Which you held to your face--
Had a small tear left a stain?
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Wilde - Poems |
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Pitholeon
sends to me: "You know his Grace,
I want a patron; ask him for a place.
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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Does the sower
Sow by night,
Or the plowman in
darkness
plough?
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blake-poems |
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At last, however, he began to
snore, and as for me, I gave myself up to
thoughts
which did not allow
me to close my eyes for a moment all night.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Or
quenched
the fires lit by their breath?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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I will
contriue
it ?
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Some think it service in the place
Where we, with late, celestial face,
Please God, shall
ascertain!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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She
Had by the gods since time out of mind at their banquets been dreaded,
Yelling with
brassiest
voice orders to great and to small.
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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CANUTIUS may be the person
mentioned
by Suetonius _De Claris
Rhetoribus_.
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Tacitus |
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That whistling boy who minds his goats
So idly in the grey ravine,
"The brown-backed rower
drenched
with spray, 5
The lemon-seller in the street,
And the young girl who keeps her first
Wild love-tryst at the rising moon,--
"Lo, these are wiser than the wise.
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Sappho |
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ON THE BANKS OF JO-YEH
By the river-side at Jo-yeh,
girls plucking lotus;
Laughing across the lotus-flowers,
each
whispers
to a friend.
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Li Po |
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A slave of yesterday, a Tartar, son
By
marriage
of Maliuta, of a hangman,
Himself in soul a hangman, he to wear
The crown and robe of Monomakh!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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