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...Hermetically sealed, each in its shrine, A statue in this temple of oblivion ! Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill and toil unweariable, No moment and no movement unimproved, Ijaid line on line, on terrace terrace spread, To swell the heightening, brightening, gradual mound,...

...Hermetically sealed, each in its shrine, A statue in this temple of oblivion ! Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill and toil unweariable,...By marvellous structure climbing towards the day. Each wrought alone, yet all together wrought, Unconscious, not unworthy, instruments, By which a hand...

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