Hesperus: A Legend Of The Stars Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGH IJKJLMNM DODO PQCQ DRSRTUVU WXYYWXQZOA2B2 DDWWD C2C2D2DDD2 E2DDDDDIDIWWD F2F2G2H2H2DDG2WDDDDW X DDI2ZDDDDD2A2D2D2J2D A2ID2D2K2I2D2L2IDM2D D2DL2 N2 D2O2IIO2 D2IDDI P2IO2O2I X DD2D2D2Q2D2DDDR2D2D2 QD2DS2T2D2DR2S2D2 D HHDT2T2D2D2D P2P2IT2 T2P2P2I N2 P2DD2D2D D2D2DDD2 N2 P2D2HA2D2 X R2T2D2R2T2IU2QDDT2D2 D2DD2D2D D D2IDDIDDK2K2M2M2K2K2 M2 N2 D2D2QQD2 T2 D2DT2D2DD2ODV2DDDDDD DIID2DV2D2I N2 I2V2V2I2 V2A2A2V2 IIII IIII D2 D2W2D2X2D2Y2D2Z2DV2N 2Y2Q2D2H D V2D2D2D2D2D2D2 N2 D2D2QQD2 T2 DD2IM2DDD2V2DID2D2V2 DD2D2A2T2ID2D2D2V2A3 I2DDI N2 DOIIDO D2D2P2P2D2D2 N2 N2N2ID2ID2 T2 DD2W2DL2OD2D2T2D2D2D N2D2I2DD2DD2DN2B3DDD DDDDD2DV2DD2T2D2DIDI N2D2I2D D N2D2N2D2OOOOOIDDOV2D D2DN2D2D2DN2V2V2DOII IOIT2T2OD2OD2OIOID2T 2T2N2N2DDC3DD2D2D2D2 DDDDDV2DDV2DD2D2D2D2 T2 ID2CODD2DDDDD2 ODIIODDDDDDDD2D2OOOI V2IIII

PRELUDE	A
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The Stars are heaven's ministers	B
Right royally they teach	C
God's glory and omnipotence	D
In wondrous lowly speech	C
All eloquent with music as	E
The tremblings of a lyre	F
To him that hath an ear to hear	G
They speak in words of fire	H
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Not to learned sagas only	I
Their whisperings come down	J
The monarch is not glorified	K
Because he wears a crown	J
The humblest soldier in the camp	L
Can win the smile of Mars	M
And 'tis the lowliest spirits hold	N
Communion with the stars	M
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Thoughts too refined for utterance	D
Ethereal as the air	O
Crowd through the brain's dim labyrinths	D
And leave their impress there	O
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As far along the gleaming void	P
Man's tender glances roll	Q
Wonder usurps the throne of speech	C
But vivifies the soul	Q
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Oh heaven cradled mysteries	D
What sacred paths ye've trod	R
Bright jewelled scintillations from	S
The chariot wheels of God	R
When in the spirit He rode forth	T
With vast creative aim	U
These were His footprints left behind	V
To magnify His name	U
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We gazed on the Evening Star	W
Mary and I	X
As it shone	Y
On its throne	Y
Afar	W
In the blue sky	X
Shone like a ransomed soul	Q
In the depths of that quiet heaven	Z
Like a pearly tear	O
Trembling with fear	A2
On the pallid cheek of Even	B2
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And I thought of the myriad souls	D
Gazing with human eyes	D
On the light of that star	W
Shining afar	W
In the quiet evening skies	D
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Some with winged hope	C2
Clearing the cope	C2
Of heaven as swift as light	D2
Others with souls	D
Blind as the moles	D
Sinking in rayless night	D2
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Dreams such as dreamers dream	E2
Flitted before our eyes	D
Beautiful visions	D
Angelo's Titian's	D
Had never more gorgeous dyes	D
We soared with the angels	D
Through vistas of glory	I
We heard the evangels	D
Relate the glad story	I
Of the beautiful star	W
Shining afar	W
In the quiet evening skies	D
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And we gazed and dreamed	F2
Till our spirits seemed	F2
Absorbed in the stellar world	G2
Sorrow was swallowed up	H2
Drained was the bitter cup	H2
Of earth to the very lees	D
And we sailed over seas	D
Of white vapour that whirled	G2
Through the skies afar	W
Angels our charioteers	D
Threading the endless spheres	D
And to the chorus of angels	D
Rehearsed the evangels	D
The Birth of the Evening Star	W
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I	X
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Far back in the infant ages	D
Before the eras stamped their autographs	D
Upon the stony records of the earth	I2
Before the burning incense of the sun	Z
Rolled up the interlucent space	D
Brightening the blank abyss	D
Ere the Recording Angel's tears	D
Were shed for man's transgressions	D
A Seraph with a face of light	D2
And hair like heaven's golden atmosphere	A2
Blue eyes serene in their beatitude	D2
Godlike in their tranquillity	D2
Features as perfect as God's dearest work	J2
And stature worthy of her race	D
Lived high exalted in the sacred sphere	A2
That floated in a sea of harmony	I
Translucent as pure crystal or the light	D2
That flowed unceasing from this higher world	D2
Unto the spheres beneath it Far below	K2
The extremest regions underneath the Earth	I2
The first spheres rose of vari coloured light	D2
In calm rotation through a rial deep	L2
Like seas of jasper blue and coralline	I
Crystal and violet layers of worlds	D
The robes of ages that had passed away	M2
Left as memorials of their sojournings	D
For nothing passes wholly All is changed	D2
The Years but slumber in their sepulchres	D
And speak prophetic meanings in their sleep	L2
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FIRST ANGEL	N2
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Oh how our souls are gladdened	D2
When we think of that brave old age	O2
When God's light came down	I
From heaven to crown	I
Each act of the virgin page	O2
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Oh how our souls are saddened	D2
At the deeds which were done since then	I
By the angel race	D
In the holy place	D
And on earth by the sons of men	I
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Lo as the years are fleeting	P2
With their burden of toil and pain	I
We know that the page	O2
Of that primal age	O2
Will be opened up once again	I
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II	X
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Progressing still the bright faced Seraph rose	D
From Goodness to Perfection till she stood	D2
The fairest and the best of all that waked	D2
The tuneful echoes of that lofty world	D2
Where Lucifer then the stateliest of the throng	Q2
Of Angels walked majestical arrayed	D2
In robes of brightness worthy of his place	D
And all the intermediate spheres were homes	D
Of the existences	D
Of spiritual life	R2
Love the divine arcanum was the bond	D2
That linked them to each other heart to heart	D2
And angel world to world and soul to soul	Q
Thus the first ages passed	D2
Cycles of perfect bliss	D
God the acknowledged sovereign of all	S2
Sphere spake with sphere and love conversed with love	T2
From the far centre to sublimest height	D2
And down the deep unfathomable space	D
To the remotest homes of angel life	R2
A viewless chain of being circling all	S2
And linking every spirit to its God	D2
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ANGEL CHORUS	D
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Spirits that never falter	H
Before God's altar	H
Rehearse their paeans of unceasing praise	D
Their theme the boundless love	T2
By which God rules above	T2
Mysteriously engrafted	D2
On grace divine and wafted	D2
Into every soul of man that disobeys	D
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Not till the wondrous being	P2
Of the All Seeing	P2
Is manifested to finite man	I
Can ye understand the love	T2
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By which God rules above	T2
Evermore extending	P2
In circles never ending	P2
To every atom in the universal plan	I
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SECOND ANGEL	N2
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Oh the love beyond computing	P2
Of the high and holy place	D
The unseen bond	D2
Circling beyond	D2
The limits of time and space	D
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Through earth and her world of beauty	D2
The heavenly links extend	D2
Man feels its presence	D
Imbibes its essence	D
But cannot yet comprehend	D2
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THIRD ANGEL	N2
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But the days are fast approaching	P2
When the Father of Love will send	D2
His interpreter	H
From the highest sphere	A2
That man fully may comprehend	D2
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III	X
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Oh truest Love because the truest life	R2
Oh blest existence to exist with Love	T2
Oh Love without which all things else must die	D2
The death that knows no waking unto life	R2
Oh Jealousy that saps the heart of Love	T2
And robs it of its tenderness divine	I
And Pride that tramples with its iron hoof	U2
Upon the flower of love whose fragrant soul	Q
Exhales itself in sweetness as it dies	D
A lofty spirit surfeited with Bliss	D
A Prince of Angels cancelling all love	T2
All due allegiance to his rightful Lord	D2
Doing dishonour to his high estate	D2
Turning the truth and wisdom which were his	D
For ages of supreme felicity	D2
To thirst for power and hatred of his God	D2
Who raised him to such vast pre minence	D
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SECOND ANGEL CHORUS	D
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Woe woe to the ransomed spirit	D2
Once freed from the stain of sin	I
Whose pride increases	D
Till all love ceases	D
To nourish it from within	I
Its doom is the darkened regions	D
Where the rebel angel legions	D
Live their long night of sorrow	K2
Where no expectant morrow	K2
No mercy tempered ray	M2
From the altar of to day	M2
Comes down through the gloom to borrow	K2
One drop from their cup of sorrow	K2
Or lighten their cheerless way	M2
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FIRST ANGEL	N2
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But blest be the gentle spirit	D2
Whose love is ever increased	D2
From its own pure soul	Q
The illumined goal	Q
Where Love holds perpetual feast	D2
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IV	T2
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Ingrate Angel he	D2
To purchase Hell and at so vast a price	D
'Tis the old story of celestial strife	T2
Rebellion in the palace halls of God	D2
False angels joining the insurgent ranks	D
Who suffered dire defeats and fell at last	D2
From bliss supreme to darkness and despair	O
But they the faithful dwellers in the spheres	D
Who kept their souls inviolate to whom	V2
Heaven's love and truth were truly great rewards	D
For these the stars were sown throughout all space	D
As fit memorials of their faithfulness	D
The wretched lost were banished to the depths	D
Beneath the lowest spheres Earth barred the space	D
Between them and the Faithful Then the hills	D
Rose bald and rugged o'er the wild abyss	D
The waters found their places and the sun	I
The bright haired warder of the golden morn	I
Parting the curtains of reposing night	D2
Rung his first challenge to the dismal shades	D
That shrunk back awed into Cimmerean gloom	V2
And the young moon glode through the startled void	D2
With quiet beauty and majestic mien	I
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SECOND ANGEL	N2
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Slowly rose the daedal Earth	I2
Through the purple hued abysm	V2
Glowing like a gorgeous prism	V2
Heaven exulting o'er its birth	I2
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Still the mighty wonder came	V2
Through the jasper coloured sphere	A2
Ether winged and crystal clear	A2
Trembling to the loud acclaim	V2
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In a haze of golden rain	I
Up the heavens rolled the sun	I
Danae like the earth was won	I
Else his love and light were vain	I
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So the heart and soul of man	I
Own the light and love of heaven	I
Nothing yet in vain was given	I
Nature's is a perfect plan	I
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V	D2
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The glowing Seraph with the brow of light	D2
Was first among the Faithful When the war	W2
Between heaven's rival armies fiercely waged	D2
She bore the Will Divine from rank to rank	X2
The chosen courier of Deity	D2
Her presence cheered the combatants for Truth	Y2
And Victory stood up where'er she moved	D2
And now in gleaming robe of woven pearl	Z2
Emblazoned with devices of the stars	D
And legends of their glory yet to come	V2
The type of Beauty Intellectual	N2
The representative of Love and Truth	Y2
She moves first in the innumerable throng	Q2
Of angels congregating to behold	D2
The crowning wonder of creative power	H
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THIRD ANGEL CHORUS	D
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Oh joy that no mortal can fathom	V2
To rejoice in the smile of God	D2
To be first in the light	D2
Of His Holy sight	D2
And freed from His chastening rod	D2
Faithful indeed that soul to be	D2
The messenger of Deity	D2
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FIRST ANGEL	N2
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This this is the chosen spirit	D2
Whose love is ever increased	D2
From its own pare soul	Q
The illumined goal	Q
Where Love holds perpetual feast	D2
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VI	T2
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With noiseless speed the angel charioteers	D
In dazzling splendour all triumphant rode	D2
Through seas of ether painfully serene	I
That flashed a golden phosphorescent spray	M2
As luminous as the sun's intensest beams	D
Athwart the wide interminable space	D
Legion on legion of the sons of God	D2
Vast phalanxes of graceful cherubim	V2
Innumerable multitudes and ranks	D
Of all the hosts and hierarchs of heaven	I
Moved by one universal impulse urged	D2
Their steeds of swiftness up the arch of light	D2
From sphere to sphere increasing as they came	V2
Till world on world was emptied of its race	D
Upward with unimaginable speed	D2
The myriads congregating zenith ward	D2
Reached the far confines of the utmost sphere	A2
The home of Truth the dwelling place of Love	T2
Striking celestial symphonies divine	I
From the resounding sea of melody	D2
That heaved in swells of soft mellifluous sound	D2
To the blest crowds at whose triumphal tread	D2
Its soul of sweetness waked in thrills sublime	V2
The sun stood poised upon the western verge	A3
The moon paused waiting for the march of earth	I2
That stayed to watch the advent of the stars	D
And ocean hushed its very deepest deeps	D
In grateful expectation	I
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SECOND ANGEL	N2
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Still through the viewless regions	D
Of the habitable air	O
Through the ether ocean	I
In unceasing motion	I
Pass the multitudinous legions	D
Of angels everywhere	O
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Bearing each new born spirit	D2
Through the interlucent void	D2
To its starry dwelling	P2
Angel anthems telling	P2
Every earthly deed of merit	D2
To each flashing asteroid	D2
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THIRD ANGEL	N2
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Through the realms sidereal	N2
Clothed with the immaterial	N2
Far as the fields elysian	I
In starry bloom extend	D2
The stretch of angel vision	I
Can see and comprehend	D2
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VII	T2
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Innumerable as the ocean sands	D
The angel concourse in due order stood	D2
In meek anticipation waiting for	W2
The new created orbs	D
Still hidden in the deep	L2
And unseen laboratory where	O
Not even angel eyes could penetrate	D2
A star for each of that angelic host	D2
Memorials of their faithfulness and love	T2
The Evening Star God's bright eternal gift	D2
To the pure Seraph with the brow of light	D2
And named for her mild Hesperus	D
Came twinkling down the unencumbered blue	N2
On viewless wings of sweet melodious sound	D2
Beauty and grace presiding at its birth	I2
Celestial plaudits sweeping through the skies	D
Waked resonant paeans till the concave thrilled	D2
Through its illimitable bounds	D
With a sudden burst	D2
Of light that lit the universal space	D
As with a flame of crystal	N2
Rousing the Soul of Joy	B3
That slumbered in the patient sea	D
From every point of heaven the hurrying cars	D
Conveyed the constellations to their thrones	D
The throbbing planets and the burning suns	D
Erratic comets and the various grades	D
And magnitudes of palpitating stars	D
From the far arctic and antarctic zones	D
Through all the vast surrounding infinite	D2
A wilderness of intermingling orbs	D
The gleaming wonders pulsing earthward came	V2
Each to its destined place	D
Each in itself a world	D2
With all its coining myriad life	T2
Drawing us nearer the Omnipotent	D2
With hearts of wonder and with souls of praise	D
Astrea Pallas strange Aldebaran	I
The Pleiads Arcturus the ruddy Mars	D
Pale Saturn Ceres and Orion	I
All as they circle still	N2
Through the enraptured void	D2
For each young angel born to us from earth	I2
A new made star is launched among its peers	D
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FULL ANGEL CHORUS	D
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Dreamer in the realms a rial	N2
Searcher for the true and good	D2
Hoper for the high ethereal	N2
Limit of Beatitude	D2
Lift thy heart to heaven for there	O
Is embalmed thy spirit prayer	O
Not in words is shrined thy prayer	O
But thy Thought awaits thee there	O
God loves the silent worshipper	O
The grandest hymn	I
That nature chants the litany	D
Of the rejoicing stars is silent praise	D
Their nightly anthems stir	O
The souls of lofty seraphim	V2
In the remotest heaven The melody	D
Descends in throbbings of celestial light	D2
Into the heart of man whose upward gaze	D
And meditative aspect tell	N2
Of the heart's incense passing up the night	D2
Above the crystalline height	D2
The theme of thoughtful praise ascends	D
Not from the wildest swell	N2
Of the vexed ocean soars the fullest psalm	V2
But in the evening calm	V2
And in the solemn midnight silence blends	D
With silence and to the ear	O
Attuned to harmony divine	I
Begets a strain	I
Whose trance like stillness wakes delicious pain	I
The silent tear	O
Holds keener anguish in its orb of brine	I
Deeper and truer grief	T2
Than the loud wail that brings relief	T2
As thunder clears the atmosphere	O
But the deep tearless Sorrow how profound	D2
Unspoken to the ear	O
Of sense 'tis yet as eloquent a sound	D2
As that which wakes the lyre	O
Of the rejoicing Day when	I
Morn on the mountains lights his urn of fire	O
The flowers of the glen	I
Rejoice in silence huge pines stand apart	D2
Upon the lofty hills and sigh	T2
Their woes to every breeze that passeth by	T2
The willow tells its mournful tale	N2
So tenderly that e'en the passing gale	N2
Bears not a murmur on its wings	D
Of what the spirit sings	D
That breathes its trembling thoughts through all the	C3
drooping strings	D
He loves God most who worships most	D2
In the obedient heart	D2
The thunder's noisome boast	D2
What is it to the violet lightning thought	D2
So with the burning passion of the stars	D
Creation's diamond sands	D
Strewn along the pearly strands	D
And far extending corridors	D
Of heaven's blooming shores	D
No scintil of their jewelled flame	V2
But wafts the exquisite essence	D
Of prayer to the Eternal Presence	D
Of praise to the Eternal Name	V2
The silent prayer unbars	D
The gates of Paradise while the too intimate	D2
Self righteous' boast strikes rudely at the gate	D2
Of heaven unknowing why it does not open to	D2
Their summons as they see pale Silence passing through	D2
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VIII	T2
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In grateful admiration till the Dawn	I
Withdrew the gleaming curtains of the night	D2
We watched the whirling systems until each	C
Could recognize their own peculiar star	O
When with the swift celerity	D
Of Fancy footed Thought	D2
The light caparisoned a rial steeds	D
Shod with rare fleetness	D
Revisited the farthest of the spheres	D
Ere the earth's sun had kissed the mountain tops	D
Or shook the sea pearls from his locks of gold	D2
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Still on the Evening Star	O
Gazed we with steadfast eyes	D
As it shone	I
On its throne	I
Afar	O
In the blue skies	D
No longer the charioteers	D
Dashed through the gleaming spheres	D
No more the evangels	D
Rehearsed the glad story	D
But in passing the angels	D
Left footprints of glory	D
For up the starry void	D2
Bright flashing asteroid	D2
Pale moon and starry choir	O
Aided by Fancy's fire	O
Rung from the glittering lyre	O
Changes of song and hymn	I
Worthy of Seraphim	V2
Night's shepherdess sat queenlike on her throne	I
Watching her starry flocks from zone to zone	I
While we like mortals turned to breathing stone	I
Intently pondered on the Known Unknown	I

Charles Sangster

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