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The White Heat.

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Dare you see a soul at the white heat?     Then crouch within the door.     Red is the fire's common tint;     But when the vivid ore     Has sated flame's conditions,     Its quivering substance plays     Without a color but the light     Of unanointed blaze.     Least village boasts its blacksmith,     Whose anvil's even din     Stands symbol for the finer forge     That soundless tugs within,     Refining these impatient ores     With hammer and with blaze,     Until the designated light     Repudiate the forge.

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