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- THE LEADERS OF THE CROWD
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- THEY must to keep their certainty accuse
- All that are different of a base intent;
- Pull down established honour; hawk for news
- Whatever their loose fantasy invent
- And murmur it with bated breath, as though
- The abounding gutter had been Helicon
- Or calumny a song. How can they know
- Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone,
- And there alone, that have no Solitude?
- So the crowd come they care not what may come.
- They have loud music, hope every day renewed
- And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.
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