"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."
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Thomas Noon Talfourd, Ion, Act I, scene 1, line 138.
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