The Study of Poetry • Paragraph 1795
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Then the Boy sprang up from his knees, and ran, Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought, And fetched the seventh plate of graven lead {60} Out of the secret chamber, found a place, Pressing with finger on the deeper dints, And spoke, as ‘twere his mouth proclaiming first, “I am the Resurrection and the Life.”