MEROPS
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hat care I, so they stand the same,--Things of the heavenly mind,--How long the power to give them nameTarries yet behind? Thus far to-day your favors reach,O fair, appeasing presences!Ye taught my lips a single speech,And a thousand silences. Space grants beyond his fated roadNo inch to the god of day;And copious language still bestowedOne word, no more, to say.
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