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These things shall be! A loftier race
Than e'er the world hath known, shall rise
With flame of freedom in their souls,
And light of science in their eyes.

— John Addington Symonds

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'knowledge' instead of 'science', in Bartlett's, 14th ed. (1968) p. 785

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Gods fade; but God abides and in man’s heart
Speaks with the clear unconquerable cry
Of energies and hopes that can not die.

No seed shall perish which the soul hath sown.

O heaven-blue eyes, blonde tresses where the breeze
Plays over sunburned cheeks in sea-blown air!

O dark brown eyes! O tangles of dark hair!

She smiled, and the shadows departed;
She shone, and the snows were rain;
And he who was frozen-hearted
Bloomed up into love again.

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