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O'er the wide champaign while they pass, Their footsteps yield no sound,
Nor shake from the light trembling grass A dew-drop to the ground.
Among the undistinguish'd hosts,
My wondering eyes explore Awful, sublime, terrific ghosts,
Heroes and kings of yore : —
Tyrants, the comets of their kind, Whose withering influence ran
Through all the promise of the mind, And smote and mildew'd man : —
Sages, the pleiades of earth, Whose genial aspects smiled.
And flowers and fruitage sprang to birth O'er all the human wild.
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