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17.
"Ah, but so I shall not enter,
 Scroll in hand, the common heart—
Stopped at surface: since at centre
 Song should reach Welt-schmerz, world-smart!"
"Enter in the heart?" Its shelly
 Cuirass guard mine, fore and aft!
Such song "enters in the belly
 And is cast out in the draught."

18.
Back then to our sherris-brewage!
 "Kingship" quotha? I shall wait—
Waive the present time: some new age . . .
 But let fools anticipate!