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The Mystic Meaning

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Alas! that we are deaf and blind          To meanings all about us hid!          What secrets lurk the woods amid?         What prophecies are on the wind?         What tidings do the billows bring          And cry in vain upon the strand?          If we might only understand         The brooklet's cryptic murmuring!         The tongues of earth and air are strange.          And yet (who knows?) one little word          Learned from the language of the bird         Might make us lords of Fate and Change!

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