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Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Create an image from this poem

RAIN IN SUMMER

 How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!

How it clatters along the roofs,
Like the tramp of hoofs
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the overflowing spout!

Across the window-pane
It pours and pours;
And swift and wide,
With a muddy tide,
Like a river down the gutter roars
The rain, the welcome rain!

The sick man from his chamber looks
At the twisted brooks;
He can feel the cool
Breath of each little pool;
His fevered brain
Grows calm again,
And he breathes a blessing on the rain.
From the neighboring school Come the boys, With more than their wonted noise And commotion; And down the wet streets Sail their mimic fleets, Till the treacherous pool Ingulfs them in its whirling And turbulent ocean.
In the country, on every side, Where far and wide, Like a leopard's tawny and spotted hide, Stretches the plain, To the dry grass and the drier grain How welcome is the rain! In the furrowed land The toilsome and patient oxen stand; Lifting the yoke encumbered head, With their dilated nostrils spread, They silently inhale The clover-scented gale, And the vapors that arise From the well-watered and smoking soil.
For this rest in the furrow after toil Their large and lustrous eyes Seem to thank the Lord, More than man's spoken word.
Near at hand, From under the sheltering trees, The farmer sees His pastures, and his fields of grain, As they bend their tops To the numberless beating drops Of the incessant rain.
He counts it as no sin That he sees therein Only his own thrift and gain.
These, and far more than these, The Poet sees! He can behold Aquarius old Walking the fenceless fields of air; And from each ample fold Of the clouds about him rolled Scattering everywhere The showery rain, As the farmer scatters his grain.
He can behold Things manifold That have not yet been wholly told,-- Have not been wholly sung nor said.
For his thought, that never stops, Follows the water-drops Down to the graves of the dead, Down through chasms and gulfs profound, To the dreary fountain-head Of lakes and rivers under ground; And sees them, when the rain is done, On the bridge of colors seven Climbing up once more to heaven, Opposite the setting sun.
Thus the Seer, With vision clear, Sees forms appear and disappear, In the perpetual round of strange, Mysterious change From birth to death, from death to birth, From earth to heaven, from heaven to earth; Till glimpses more sublime Of things, unseen before, Unto his wondering eyes reveal The Universe, as an immeasurable wheel Turning forevermore In the rapid and rushing river of Time.


Written by Mary Darby Robinson | Create an image from this poem

Ode to the Moon

 PALE GODDESS of the witching hour;
Blest Contemplation's placid friend; 
Oft in my solitary bow'r,
I mark thy lucid beam
From thy crystal car descend,
Whitening the spangled heath, and limpid sapphire stream.
And oft, amidst the shades of night I court thy undulating light; When Fairies dance around the verdant ring, Or frisk beside the bubbling spring, When the thoughtless SHEPHERD'S song Echoes thro' the silent air, As he pens his fleecy care, Or plods with saunt'ring gait, the dewy meads along.
CHASTE ORB! as thro' the vaulted sky Feath'ry clouds transparent sail; When thy languid, weeping eye, Sheds its soft tears upon the painted vale; As I ponder o'er the floods, Or tread with listless step, th'embow'ring woods, O, let thy transitory beam, Soothe my sad mind, with FANCY'S aëry dream.
Wrapt in REFLECTION, let me trace O'er the vast ethereal space, Stars, whose twinkling fires illume Dark-brow'd NIGHT'S obtrusive gloom; Where across the concave wide; Flaming METEORS swiftly glide; Or along the milky way, Vapours shoot a silvery ray; And as I mark, thy faint reclining head, Sinking on Ocean's pearly bed; Let REASON tell my soul, thus all things fade.
The Seasons change, the "garish SUN" When Day's burning car hath run Its fiery course, no more we view, While o'er the mountain's golden head, Streak'd with tints of crimson hue, Twilight's filmy curtains spread, Stealing o'er Nature's face, a desolating shade.
Yon musky FLOW'R, that scents the earth; The SOD, that gave its odours birth; The ROCK, that breaks the torrent's force; The VALE, that owns its wand'ring course; The woodlands where the vocal throng Trill the wild melodious song; Thirsty desarts, sands that glow, Mountains, cap'd with flaky snow; Luxuriant groves, enamell'd fields, All, all, prolific Nature yields, Alike shall end; the sensate HEART, With all its passions, all its fire, Touch'd by FATE'S unerring dart, Shall feel its vital strength expire; Those eyes, that beam with FRIENDSHIP'S ray, And glance ineffable delight, Shall shrink from LIFE'S translucid day, And close their fainting orbs, in DEATH'S impervious night.
Then what remains for mortal pow'r; But TIME'S dull journey to beguile; To deck with joy, the winged hour, To meet its sorrows with a patient smile; And when the toilsome pilgrimage shall end, To greet the tyrant, as a welcome friend.
Written by Anne Kingsmill Finch | Create an image from this poem

Adam Posed

Could our first father, at his toilsome plow,
Thorns in his path, and labor on his brow,
Clothed only in a rude, unpolished skin,
Could he a vain fantastic nymph have seen,
In all her airs, in all her antic graces,
Her various fashions, and more various faces;
How had it posed that skill, which late assigned
Just appellations to each several kind!
A right idea of the sight to frame;
T'have guessed from what new element she came;
T'have hit the wav'ring form, or giv'n this thing a name.
Written by Walt Whitman | Create an image from this poem

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

 1
 COME, my tan-faced children, 
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; 
Have you your pistols? have you your sharp edged axes? Pioneers! O pioneers! 

2
 For we cannot tarry here, 
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers! 

3
 O you youths, western youths, 
So impatient, full of action, full of manly pride and friendship, 
Plain I see you, western youths, see you tramping with the foremost, Pioneers! O
 pioneers! 

4
 Have the elder races halted?
Do they droop and end their lesson, wearied, over there beyond the seas? 
We take up the task eternal, and the burden, and the lesson, Pioneers! O pioneers! 

5
 All the past we leave behind; 
We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, 
Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O pioneers!

6
 We detachments steady throwing, 
Down the edges, through the passes, up the mountains steep, 
Conquering, holding, daring, venturing, as we go, the unknown ways, Pioneers! O pioneers!


7
 We primeval forests felling, 
We the rivers stemming, vexing we, and piercing deep the mines within;
We the surface broad surveying, we the virgin soil upheaving, Pioneers! O pioneers! 

8
 Colorado men are we, 
From the peaks gigantic, from the great sierras and the high plateaus, 
From the mine and from the gully, from the hunting trail we come, Pioneers! O pioneers! 

9
 From Nebraska, from Arkansas,
Central inland race are we, from Missouri, with the continental blood intervein’d; 
All the hands of comrades clasping, all the Southern, all the Northern, Pioneers! O
 pioneers!


10
 O resistless, restless race! 
O beloved race in all! O my breast aches with tender love for all! 
O I mourn and yet exult—I am rapt with love for all, Pioneers! O pioneers!

11
 Raise the mighty mother mistress, 
Waving high the delicate mistress, over all the starry mistress, (bend your heads all,) 
Raise the fang’d and warlike mistress, stern, impassive, weapon’d mistress, Pioneers! O
 pioneers! 

12
See, my children, resolute children, 
By those swarms upon our rear, we must never yield or falter,
Ages back in ghostly millions, frowning there behind us urging, Pioneers! O pioneers! 

13
 On and on, the compact ranks, 
With accessions ever waiting, with the places of the dead quickly fill’d, 
Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping, Pioneers! O pioneers!


14
 O to die advancing on!
Are there some of us to droop and die? has the hour come? 
Then upon the march we fittest die, soon and sure the gap is fill’d, Pioneers! O
 pioneers! 

15
 All the pulses of the world, 
Falling in, they beat for us, with the western movement beat; 
Holding single or together, steady moving, to the front, all for us, Pioneers! O
 pioneers!

16
 Life’s involv’d and varied pageants, 
All the forms and shows, all the workmen at their work, 
All the seamen and the landsmen, all the masters with their slaves, Pioneers! O pioneers!


17
 All the hapless silent lovers, 
All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,
All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living, all the dying, Pioneers! O pioneers! 

18
 I too with my soul and body, 
We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way, 
Through these shores, amid the shadows, with the apparitions pressing, Pioneers! O
 pioneers! 

19

 Lo! the darting bowling orb! 
Lo! the brother orbs around! all the clustering suns and planets, 
All the dazzling days, all the mystic nights with dreams, Pioneers! O pioneers! 

20
 These are of us, they are with us, 
All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind,
We to-day’s procession heading, we the route for travel clearing, Pioneers! O pioneers! 

21
 O you daughters of the west! 
O you young and elder daughters! O you mothers and you wives! 
Never must you be divided, in our ranks you move united, Pioneers! O pioneers! 

22
 Minstrels latent on the prairies!
(Shrouded bards of other lands! you may sleep—you have done your work;) 
Soon I hear you coming warbling, soon you rise and tramp amid us, Pioneers! O pioneers! 

23
 Not for delectations sweet; 
Not the cushion and the slipper, not the peaceful and the studious; 
Not the riches safe and palling, not for us the tame enjoyment, Pioneers! O pioneers!

24
 Do the feasters gluttonous feast? 
Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock’d and bolted doors? 
Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground, Pioneers! O pioneers! 

25
 Has the night descended? 
Was the road of late so toilsome? did we stop discouraged, nodding on our way?
Yet a passing hour I yield you, in your tracks to pause oblivious, Pioneers! O pioneers!


26
 Till with sound of trumpet, 
Far, far off the day-break call—hark! how loud and clear I hear it wind; 
Swift! to the head of the army!—swift! spring to your places, Pioneers! O pioneers.
Written by Thomas Gray | Create an image from this poem

The Bard

 Pindaric Ode

"Ruin seize thee, ruthless King!
Confusion on thy banners wait!
Tho' fanned by Conquest's crimson wing,
They mock the air with idle state.
Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, Tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears!" Such were the sounds that o'er the crested pride Of the first Edward scattered wild dismay, As down the steep of Snowdon's shaggy side He wound with toilsome march his long array.
Stout Glo'ster stood aghast in speechless trance: "To arms!" cried Mortimer, and couched his quiv'ring lance.
On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er cold Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe With haggard eyes the Poet stood; (Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air) And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
"Hark, how each giant-oak and desert-cave Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath! O'er thee, O King! their hundred arms they wave, Revenge on thee in hoarser murmurs breathe; Vocal no more, since Cambria's fatal day, To high-born Hoel's harp, or soft Llewellyn's lay.
"Cold is Cadwallo's tongue, That hushed the stormy main; Brave Urien sleeps upon his craggy bed: Mountains, ye mourn in vain Modred, whose magic song Made huge Plinlimmon bow his cloud-topt head.
On dreary Arvon's shore they lie, Smeared with gore, and ghastly pale: Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail; The famished eagle screams, and passes by.
Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries— No more I weep.
They do not sleep.
On yonder cliffs, a grisly band, I see them sit; they linger yet, Avengers of their native land: With me in dreadful harmony they join, And weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line.
"Weave, the warp! and weave, the woof! The winding sheet of Edward's race: Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace.
Mark the year and mark the night When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death, thro' Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of Heaven! What terrors round him wait! Amazement in his van, with Flight combined, And Sorrow's faded form, and Solitude behind.
"Mighty victor, mighty lord! Low on his funeral couch he lies! No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies.
Is the sable warrior fled? Thy son is gone.
He rests among the dead.
The swarm that in thy noon-tide beam were born? Gone to salute the rising morn.
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his ev'ning prey.
"Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare; Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast: Close by the regal chair Fell Thirst and Famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest.
Heard ye the din of battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse? Long years of havoc urge their destined course, And thro' the kindred squadrons mow their way.
Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed, Revere his consort's faith, his father's fame, And spare the meek usurper's holy head.
Above, below, the rose of snow, Twined with her blushing foe, we spread: The bristled Boar in infant-gore Wallows beneath the thorny shade.
Now, brothers, bending o'er the accursed loom, Stamp we our vengeance deep, and ratify his doom.
"Edward, lo! to sudden fate (Weave we the woof.
The thread is spun.
) Half of thy heart we consecrate.
(The web is wove.
The work is done.
) Stay, oh stay! nor thus forlorn Leave me unblessed, unpitied, here to mourn: In yon bright track that fires the western skies They melt, they vanish from my eyes.
But oh! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height Descending slow their glittering skirts unroll? Visions of glory, spare my aching sight, Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul! No more our long-lost Arthur we bewail.
All hail, ye genuine kings! Britannia's issue, hail! "Girt with many a baron bold Sublime their starry fronts they rear; And gorgeous dames, and statesmen old In bearded majesty, appear.
In the midst a form divine! Her eye proclaims her of the Briton-line: Her lion-port, her awe-commanding face, Attempered sweet to virgin grace.
What strings symphonious tremble in the air, What strains of vocal transport round her play! Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hear; They breathe a soul to animate thy clay.
Bright Rapture calls, and soaring as she sings, Waves in the eye of heav'n her many-coloured wings.
"The verse adorn again Fierce War, and faithful Love, And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest.
In buskined measures move Pale Grief, and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast.
A voice, as of the cherub-choir, Gales from blooming Eden bear; And distant warblings lessen on my ear, That lost in long futurity expire.
Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud, Raised by thy breath, has quenched the orb of day? Tomorrow he repairs the golden flood, And warms the nations with redoubled ray.
Enough for me: with joy I see The diff'rent doom our fates assign.
Be thine Despair and sceptred Care; To triumph and to die are mine.
" He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.


Written by Walt Whitman | Create an image from this poem

As Toilsome I Wander'd

 AS toilsome I wander’d Virginia’s woods, 
To the music of rustling leaves, kick’d by my feet, (for ’twas autumn,) 
I mark’d at the foot of a tree the grave of a soldier, 
Mortally wounded he, and buried on the retreat, (easily all could I understand;) 
The halt of a mid-day hour, when up! no time to lose—yet this sign left,
On a tablet scrawl’d and nail’d on the tree by the grave, 
Bold, cautious, true, and my loving comrade.
Long, long I muse, then on my way go wandering; Many a changeful season to follow, and many a scene of life; Yet at times through changeful season and scene, abrupt, alone, or in the crowded street, Comes before me the unknown soldier’s grave—comes the inscription rude in Virginia’s woods, Bold, cautious, true, and my loving comrade.
Written by Anne Bronte | Create an image from this poem

The Bluebell

 A fine and subtle spirit dwells
In every little flower,
Each one its own sweet feeling breathes
With more or less of power.
There is a silent eloquence In every wild bluebell That fills my softened heart with bliss That words could never tell.
Yet I recall not long ago A bright and sunny day, 'Twas when I led a toilsome life So many leagues away; That day along a sunny road All carelessly I strayed, Between two banks where smiling flowers Their varied hues displayed.
Before me rose a lofty hill, Behind me lay the sea, My heart was not so heavy then As it was wont to be.
Less harassed than at other times I saw the scene was fair, And spoke and laughed to those around, As if I knew no care.
But when I looked upon the bank My wandering glances fell Upon a little trembling flower, A single sweet bluebell.
Whence came that rising in my throat, That dimness in my eye? Why did those burning drops distil -- Those bitter feelings rise? O, that lone flower recalled to me My happy childhood's hours When bluebells seemed like fairy gifts A prize among the flowers, Those sunny days of merriment When heart and soul were free, And when I dwelt with kindred hearts That loved and cared for me.
I had not then mid heartless crowds To spend a thankless life In seeking after others' weal With anxious toil and strife.
'Sad wanderer, weep those blissful times That never may return!' The lovely floweret seemed to say, And thus it made me mourn.
Written by Mary Darby Robinson | Create an image from this poem

Lines to Him Who Will Understand Them

 THOU art no more my bosom's FRIEND; 
Here must the sweet delusion end, 
That charm'd my senses many a year, 
Thro' smiling summers, winters drear.
­ O, FRIENDSHIP! am I doom'd to find Thou art a phantom of the mind? A glitt'ring shade, an empty name, An air-born vision's vap'rish flame? And yet, the dear DECEIT so long Has wak'd to joy my matin song, Has bid my tears forget to flow, Chas'd ev'ry pain, soothed ev'ry woe; That TRUTH, unwelcome to my ear, Swells the deep sigh, recalls the tear, Gives to the sense the keenest smart, Checks the warm pulses of the Heart, Darkens my FATE and steals away Each gleam of joy thro' life's sad day.
BRITAIN, FAREWELL! I quit thy shore, My native Country charms no more; No guide to mark the toilsome road; No destin'd clime; no fix'd abode; Alone and sad, ordain'd to trace The vast expanse of endless space; To view, upon the mountain's height, Thro' varied shades of glimm'ring light, The distant landscape fade away In the last gleam of parting day:­ Or, on the quiv'ring lucid stream, To watch the pale moon's silv'ry beam; Or when, in sad and plaintive strains The mournful PHILOMEL complains, In dulcet notes bewails her fate, And murmurs for her absent mate; Inspir'd by SYMPATHY divine, I'll weep her woes­FOR THEY ARE MINE.
Driven by my FATE, where'er I go O'er burning plains, o'er hills of snow, Or on the bosom of the wave, The howling tempest doom'd to brave, Where'er my lonely course I bend, Thy image shall my steps attend; Each object I am doom'd to see, Shall bid remem'brance PICTURE THEE.
Yes; I shall view thee in each FLOW'R, That changes with the transient hour: Thy wand'ring Fancy I shall find Borne on the wings of every WIND: Thy wild impetuous passions trace O'er the white wave's tempestuous space: In every changing season prove An emblem of thy wav'ring LOVE.
Torn from my country, friends, and you, The World lies open to my view; New objects shall my mind engage; I will explore th' HISTORIC page; Sweet POETRY shall soothe my soul; PHILOSOPHY each pang controul: The MUSE I'll seek, her lambent fire My soul's quick senses shall inspire; With finer nerves my heart shall beat, Touch'd by Heaven's own PROMETHEAN heat; ITALIA'S gales shall bear my song In soft-link'd notes her woods among; Upon the blue hill's misty side, Thro' trackless desarts waste and wide, O'er craggy rocks, whose torrents flow Upon the silver sands below.
Sweet Land of MELODY ! 'tis thine The softest passions to refine; Thy myrtle groves, thy melting strains, Shall harmonize and soothe my pains, Nor will I cast one thought behind, On foes relentless, FRIENDS unkind; I feel, I feel their poison'd dart Pierce the life-nerve within my heart; 'Tis mingled with the vital heat, That bids my throbbing pulses beat; Soon shall that vital heat be o'er, Those throbbing pulses beat no more! No, ­I will breathe the spicy gale; Plunge the clear stream, new health exhale; O'er my pale cheek diffuse the rose, And drink OBLIVION to my woes.
Written by Anne Kingsmill Finch | Create an image from this poem

Adam Posd

 Cou'd our First Father, at his toilsome Plough,
Thorns in his Path, and Labour on his Brow,
Cloath'd only in a rude, unpolish'd Skin,
Cou'd he a vain Fantastick Nymph have seen,
In all her Airs, in all her antick Graces, 
Her various Fashions, and more various Faces;
How had it pos'd that Skill, which late assign'd
Just Appellations to Each several Kind!
A right Idea of the Sight to frame;
T'have guest from what New Element she came; 
T'have hit the wav'ring Form, or giv'n this Thing a Name.
Written by Mary Darby Robinson | Create an image from this poem

Elegy to the Memory of David Garrick Esq

 DEAR SHADE OF HIM, who grac'd the mimick scene,
And charm'd attention with resistless pow'r;
Whose wond'rous art, whose fascinating mien,
Gave glowing rapture to the short-liv'd hour! 

Accept the mournful verse, the ling'ring sigh,
The tear that faithful Mem'ry stays to shed;
The SACRED TEAR, that from Reflection's eye,
Drops on the ashes of the sainted dead.
Lov'd by the grave, and courted by the young, In social comforts eminently blest; All hearts rever'd the precepts of thy tongue, And Envy's self thy eloquence confess'd.
Who could like thee the soul's wild tumults paint, Or wake the torpid ear with lenient art? Touch the nice sense with pity's dulcet plaint, Or soothe the sorrows of the breaking heart? Who can forget thy penetrating eye, The sweet bewitching smile, th' empassion'd look? The clear deep whisper, the persuasive sigh, The feeling tear that Nature's language spoke? Rich in each treasure bounteous Heaven could lend, For private worth distinguish'd and approv'd, The pride of WISDOM,­VIRTUE's darling friend, By MANSFIELD honor'd­and by CAMDEN lov'd! The courtier's cringe, the flatt'rer's abject smile, The subtle arts of well-dissembled praise, Thy soul abhorr'd;­above the gloss of guile, Truth lead thy steps, and Friendship crown'd thy days.
Oft in thy HAMPTON's dark embow'ring shade The POET's hand shall sweep the trembling string; While the proud tribute §to thy mem'ry paid, The voice of GENIUS on the gale shall fling.
Yes, SHERIDAN! thy soft melodious verse Still vibrates on a nation's polish'd ear; Fondly it hover'd o'er the sable hearse, Hush'd the loud plaint, and triumph'd in a tear.
In life united by congenial minds, Dear to the MUSE, to sacred friendship true; Around her darling's urn a wreath SHE binds, A deathless wreath­immortaliz'd by YOU! But say, dear shade, is kindred mem'ry flown? Has widow'd love at length forgot to weep? That no kind verse, or monumental stone, Marks the lone spot where thy cold relics sleep! Dear to a nation, grateful to thy muse, That nation's tears upon thy grave shall flow, For who the gentle tribute can refuse, Which thy fine feeling gave to fancied woe? Thou who, by many an anxious toilsome hour, Reap'd the bright harvest of luxuriant Fame, Who snatch'd from dark oblivion's barb'rous pow'r The radiant glories of a SHAKSPERE's name! Rembrance oft shall paint the mournful scene Where the slow fun'ral spread its length'ning gloom, Where the deep murmur, and dejected mien, In artless sorrow linger'd round thy tomb.
And tho' no laurel'd bust, or labour'd line, Shall bid the passing stranger stay to weep; Thy SHAKSPERE's hand shall point the hallow'd shrine, And Britain's genius with thy ashes sleep.
Then rest in peace, O ever sacred shade! Your kindred souls exulting FAME shall join; And the same wreath thy hand for SHAKSPERE made, Gemm'd with her tears about THY GRAVE SHALL TWINE.

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