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FOR HIM I SING.

FOR him I sing,

I raise the Present on the Past,

(As some perennial tree, out of its roots, the present on          the past:)

With time and space I him dilate—and fuse the im-          mortal laws,

To make himself, by them, the law unto himself.

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