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If there be any power in passion’s prayer—

But no: such ultimate longings have no word:

There is no eloquence in last despair.

Many have voiced their pain & answer heard;

Though ’twere but this, that to give bodied form

To grief, call’d their own heart to combat it:

But not ev’n thus can I pray;—thou strong storm,

All-overpowering, baffling bravest wit,

Wild spirit spurning cage of time or name,

Furious intangible fire, no duteous thought

Can deal with thee, to no calm altar-flame

Confine, nor wish acceptable,—O if aught

From such dumb need can reach aught’s hearing ear,

This is it now, O hear, O hear, O hear!