So His Life Has Flowed From Its Mysterious Urn A Sacred Stream, In Whose Calm Depth The Beautiful And Pure Alone Are Mirrored

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So his life has flowed
From its mysterious urn a sacred stream,
In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure
Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill
May hover round its surface, glides in light,
And takes no shadow from them.
-- Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795-1854)
-- Ion, Act i, Sc. 1

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