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"Last songs from Vagabondia / Bliss Carman, Richard Hovey ; designs by Tom B. Meteyard [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAH8719.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 9, 2025.
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HARMONICS
"TRUTH is not a creed,For it does not needEver an apology.Truth is not an ology;'T is not part, but all.Priests and savans shallNever solve the mysticProblem. The artisticMind alone of all can tellWhat is Truth.
"Poet, thou art wisest;Dogmas thou despisest — Science little prizest.Tell us, for thou knowest well,What is Truth."
Spake the seekers to an holyBard, who answered, mild and lowly —This, all this, was in the oldenDays when Saturn's reign was golden —
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"Shall I read the riddle —Tell you what is Truth?Truth is not the firstNot the last or middle;'T is the beautifulAnd symmetric whole,Embracing best and worst,Embracing age and youth.
"All the universeIs one mighty song,Wherein every starChants out loud and strongEach set note and wordIt must aye rehearse.Though the parts may jar,The whole is as one chord."
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