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Lethe

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I flow beneath the columns that upbear          The world, and all the tracts of heaven and hell;          Foamless I sweep, where sounds nor glimmers tell         My motion nadir-ward; no moment's flare         Gives each to each the shapes that, unaware,          Commingle at my verge, to test the spell          Of waves intense with night, whose deeps compel         One face from pain, and rapture, and despair.         The fruitless earth's denied and cheated sons          Meet here, where fruitful and unfruitful cease.         And when their lords, the mightier, hidden Ones,          Have drained all worlds till being's wine is low,          Shall they not come, and from the oblivious flow          Drink at one draught a universe of peace?

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