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SONGS THAT ARE NOT SUNG.
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Still, our best is but a vision which a lightning-flash illumes,
Just a gleam of life elysian flung across the voiceless glooms.

Why should gleams perplex and move us? Must the soul still upward grow
To the beauty far above us and the songs no sense may know?