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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: PHILOSOPHY & PHILOSOPHERS Matches Found: 83 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "NO SEEKING, NO LOSING", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: An old philosopher in china Last Line: Early or late -- 'twas not his wish Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers A COLLEGE BREAKFAST-PARTY, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young hamlet, not the hesitating dane Last Line: And leave the soul in wider emptiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): College Sports; Food & Eating; Parties; Philosophy & Philosophers; Shakespeare - Hamlet A PHILOSOPHER, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zack bumstead useter flosserfize Last Line: An' set, an' set, an' flosserfize. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers A WORD TO PHILOSOPHERS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Cold philosophers, so apt Last Line: In its mystic involution. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul; Vision AD ASTRA: 74, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: These are thy first-fruits, o philosophy! Last Line: The key that shall unlock all worlds is love! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Philosophy & Philosophers ADEQUATE, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: A true philosopher!' Last Line: Philosopher! Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets ALFARABI; THE WORLD-MAKER. A RHAPSODICAL FRAGMENT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in those days / that never were, nor ever shall be, reader Last Line: Danc'd o'er it, but ..... Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers ANIMAL MAGNETISM; THE PSEUDO-PHILOSOPHER BAFFLED, by LAURENCE HYNES HALLORAN Poem Text First Line: The invited guests in silent order sat Last Line: He from her presence sneaked, completely humbled! Subject(s): Comic Strips; Laughter; Philosophy & Philosophers ARMGART, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good morning, fraulein Last Line: T is better that our griefs should not spread far. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Germany; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Philosophy & Philosophers; Sickness; Singing & Singers; Germans; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Illness; Songs BOEOTIAN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to toy with the platonic notion Last Line: At least I will not have it systematic Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers CHARLES DODGSON'S SONG, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The band played ideomeneo Last Line: A hippopotamus asleep Subject(s): Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898); Philosophy & Philosophers; Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge DEMOCRITUS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy of your opulent atoms! Wouldst thou dare Last Line: Christ with immortal love-beams laves the height. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Democritus (460-370 B.c.); Jesus Christ; Philosophy & Philosophers DEMOCRITUS AND HERACLITUS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Democritus, dear droll, revisit earth Last Line: Hurt, can I laugh? And honest, need I cry? Subject(s): Democritus (460-370 B.c.); Heraclitus (540-480 B.c.); Philosophy & Philosophers DITTY OF ARISTIPPUS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Noble gods at the board Last Line: Might but revellers pause in the prime. Subject(s): Aristippus (435-366 B.c.); Philosophy & Philosophers ELOISA TO ABELARD, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In these deep solitudes and awful cells Last Line: He best can paint 'em, who shall feel 'em most. Subject(s): Abelard, Peter (1079-1144); Heloise (1098-1164); Philosophy & Philosophers; Eloise; Eloisa EMPEDOCLES, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He leaped. With none to hinder Last Line: If heels in air the last of him! Subject(s): Greece; Pessimism; Philosophy & Philosophers; Greeks FIN-DE-SIECLE BLUES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I'm told to write a paper Last Line: Seize the day. Subject(s): Morality; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Ethics; Dictators; Feminism FIRST PHILOSOPHER'S SONG, by ALDOUS LEONARD HUXLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poor degenerate from the ape Last Line: Earth its home and earth its tomb. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers HERE IS MUSIC: RESPICIT PHILOSOPHUS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Boys, of my blood but whom Last Line: Send you god's truth, man's love. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Youth HOME (2), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home Last Line: It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Home; Philosophy & Philosophers I BROOD ABOUT SOME CONCEPTS, FOR EXAMPLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A concept like 'I,' which I am told by many Last Line: To disclose. The thing itself ... Subject(s): Language; Philosophy & Philosophers; Thought; Words; Vocabulary; Thinking LIFE-PHILOSOPHY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calmly to wait whatever chance may give Last Line: And the skies fall. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul; Time; Destiny LOVE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Philosophy has told the world Last Line: And two are one forever. Subject(s): Love; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul MARCUS AURELIUS AND EPICTETUS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twin stars, serene and pure Last Line: Filled the blue heavens with light. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Stars METAMORPHOSES: OF THE PYTHAGOREAN PHILOSOPHY, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A king is sought to guide the growing state Last Line: And all the muses o'er his acts preside. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Death; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Philosophy & Philosophers; Rome, Italy; Translating & Interpreting; Dead, The MUSOPHILUS, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fond man, musophilus, that thus dost spend Last Line: Above the reach of lightness and contempt. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Muses; Philosophy & Philosophers; Thought; Virtue; Wisdom; Thinking MY PHILOSOFY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ain't, ner don't p'tend to be Last Line: That gits more kicks than all the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers MY THEME: 1, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of me and of my theme think what thou wilt Last Line: Irradiate, and through ruinous floods uplift. Subject(s): Fortune; Philosophy & Philosophers NATURAL PERVERSITIES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not prone to moralize Last Line: Know anything about it. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Philosophy & Philosophers; Wisdom ODE TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Philosophy, the great and holy heir Last Line: And all the comely dress, without the paint of art. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers OLD ARISTIPPUS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night morn of glass / in cage of age Last Line: Say the murmurous measurers Subject(s): Aristippus (435-366 B.c.); Old Age; Philosophy & Philosophers ON A VOLUME OF SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What chilly cloister or what lattice dim Last Line: The garnered husks of his disused words. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers ON THE EPICUREAN, STOIC, AND CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three diff'rent schemes philosophers assign Last Line: He only reasons who believes a god. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers ON THE THREE PHILOSOPHICAL POETS, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Falling untempered from the ethereal blue Last Line: And streams a mansion for the soul prepare. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets PATHETIC FALLACIES ARE BAD SCIENCE BUT, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If leaf-trash chokes the stream-bed Subject(s): Langer, Susanne K. (1895-1985); Philosophy & Philosophers PHILOSOPHER, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Philosophers are lined with eyes within Last Line: Scarce freed from her embraces Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers PHILOSOPHERS AT HARVARD, 1902, by STANLEY KIDDER WILSON Poem Text First Line: Forever bandying theses, james and royce! Last Line: What if with santayana we go seeking? Subject(s): Harvard University; Philosophy & Philosophers PHILOSOPHIA AMORIS, by G. L. R. Poem Text First Line: I am weary of long, dull books, love Last Line: That it's not for you and me. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers PHILOSOPHY, by C. W. CRANNELL Poem Text First Line: Shall I grieve because a maid Last Line: Medal men are seldom in it. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Philosophy & Philosophers PHILOSOPHY, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere all the world had grown so drear Last Line: To thoughts of our philosophy. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers PHILOSOPHY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At morn the wise man walked abroad Last Line: "jehovah, god, save thou my child." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; God; Night; Philosophy & Philosophers; Bedtime PRIVATE AND PROFANE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From loss of the old and lack of the new Subject(s): Religion; Philosophy & Philosophers; Art & Artists; Writing & Writers; Conduct Of Life; Theology PROSE 31, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A logical principle is said to be an empty Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Language; Words; Vocabulary PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY, 1ST SERIES: THE MARRIAGE MARKET, by MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself Last Line: Resignation sweeteneth the cup, but impatience dasheth it with vinegar. Subject(s): Marriage; Philosophy & Philosophers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PUT IN A QUAVER, HERE AND THERE, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is smooth, fairly uniformly gray Last Line: Vicinity: mute witnesses, they could yet prove to be guides. Subject(s): Art & Artists; History; Philosophy & Philosophers; Historians RADIOACTIVE ASSAY AND EPITAPH: INDIAN SCHOOL, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way paved with iron of interdicted sites Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Philosophy & Philosophers; Science; Scientists RALPH WALDO EMERSON, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the cloud that dimmed his sunset light Last Line: Itself, and stamps it with the seal of heaven. Subject(s): Death; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Educators; Professors RASH JUDGMENT, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I saw a mountain-wall upthrown Last Line: Said one: dost thou call fools philosophers? Subject(s): Fools; Philosophy & Philosophers; Idiots ROMAN SKETCHBOOK: READING/RUSSELL SAYS, 'THERE IS NO RHINOCEROS IN, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wittgenstein's insistence to russell's Variant Title(s): "roman Sketchbook: Reading/russell Says, ""there Is No ...; Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers RUBBER ANGEL, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is not Last Line: I dare you Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Forests; Owls; Philosophy & Philosophers; Woods S.R., by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Demure apothecary Last Line: Fill with new hopes, & shake with grand desire? Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Reed, Sampson (1800-1880) SHAKSPERE-BACON CIPHER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I doubt it not - then more, far more Last Line: A mystic cipher waits infolded. Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Dramatists; Philosophy & Philosophers; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) SIDEWALK PHILOSOPHER, by BLANCHE SCHOFIELD Poem Text First Line: She did not hope to grace a royal ball Last Line: Because she could not wear a coronet. Subject(s): Apples; Dreams; Fruit; Philosophy & Philosophers; Nightmares SINGLE PHILOSOPHY, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Alla time you say, why don't you marry? Last Line: So eet ees not healthy thing for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Marriage; Philosophy & Philosophers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SKY-MAKING, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Just take a trifling handful, o philospher Last Line: And a nice girl to dine. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Sky SONNET: SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We went a-begging for a nobler creed Last Line: "perennial loaves, and flagons never dry." Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Science; Scientists THE ARTIST PHILOSOPHER, by DAISY MAUD BELLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some paint landscapes objectively Last Line: What is life but motif and connection? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Philosophy & Philosophers THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN), by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I once dreamt that cezanne lectured on the circumnavigation of a pear Last Line: And peace. Subject(s): Creative Ability; God; Knowledge; Metaphor; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Truth; Inspiration; Creativity; Similes THE CONFLICT: 6. THE REAL GERMANY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bismarck - or rapt beethoven with his dreams Last Line: Of buried guns gives birth to germany. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Ambition; Art & Artists; Bismark, Otto Von (1815-1898); Music & Musicians; Philosophy & Philosophers; World War I; First World War THE DYING PHILOSOPHER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have crept forth to die among the trees Last Line: To love the uncreated! Earth, farewell! Subject(s): Death; Philosophy & Philosophers; Dead, The THE FRIENDS OF HERACLITUS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Your friend has died, with whom Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Imaginary Conversations; City & Town Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Dead, The THE MAD PHILOSOPHER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They let him wander as he will Last Line: Of his poor mind's imaginings. Subject(s): God; Insanity; Love; Philosophy & Philosophers; Madness; Mental Illness THE MODERN TIPPLING PHILOSOPHERS, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father hodge had his pipe and his dram Last Line: If I blame, be assured I am tipsy. Subject(s): Bacon, Roger (1214-1292); Drinks & Drinking; Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679); Philosophy & Philosophers; Science; Wine; Scientists THE PEDESTRIAN; AN INCIDENT OF 1883, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, will you let me give you a ride Last Line: Through an unconscienced trick of time! Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers THE PHILOSOPHER, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had great hopes in my tender youth Last Line: I'll worry along without it! Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers THE PHILOSOPHER, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "be lost in one repose! " Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death; Philosophy & Philosophers; Dead, The THE PHILOSOPHER, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And what are you that, wanting you Last Line: So wisely and so well? Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers THE PHILOSOPHER, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His wheel of logic whirled and spun all day Last Line: Kindled the nations, and lit up the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers THE PHILOSOPHER ARISTIPPUS TO A LAMP WHICH WAS GIVEN HIM BY LAIS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Love the lamp' (my mistress said) Last Line: And where's your boast of apathy! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Aristippus (435-366 B.c.); Lamps; Philosophy & Philosophers THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 1, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what attractive charms this goodly frame Last Line: And tune to attic themes the british lyre. Subject(s): Imagination; Perception; Philosophy & Philosophers; Reason; Thought; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 2, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When shall the laurel and the vocal string Last Line: Nor so effaced the image of its sire. Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Imagination; Philosophy & Philosophers; Vision; Fancy THE PLEASURES OF IMAGINATION: BOOK 3, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder therefore, since the endearing ties Last Line: And form to his, the relish of their souls. Subject(s): Imagination; Philosophy & Philosophers; Reason; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE POSITIVISTS, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Life and the universe show spontaneity Last Line: We're our own gods, say the positivists. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Universe THE ROSE'S PHILOSOPHY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When red and white the rose of june Last Line: Who loves the rose must love the thorn' Subject(s): Flowers;gardens & Gardening;labor & Laborers;perfume;philosophy & Philosophers;roses THE SPIDER AND THE BEE (A TALE FOR THE TIMES), by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He had closed his volume of theorie Last Line: This story one tiny superfluous token. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Philosophy & Philosophers; Spiders; Beekeeping; Bugs THE TRUE PHILOSOPHY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd have you use a wise philosophy Last Line: And reach at last a peaceful anchorage. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers THREE SONNETS, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where I live distance is the primal fact Last Line: Only philosophies of suffering Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Prophecy & Prophets TO A BERKELEYAN IDEALIST, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If nature be a phastasm, as thou say'st Last Line: More than content with worlds that only seem. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Berkeley, George (1685-1753); Idealism; Philosophy & Philosophers TO A MAID DEMURE, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often when the night is come Last Line: Love me more, or not at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers TO AN OLD PHILOSOPHER IN ROME, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: On the threshold of heaven, the figures in the street Last Line: And frame from thinking and is realized Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Religion; Theology TO ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to look down, or blanch, or care Last Line: Ah! There are honours of defeat. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Balfour, Arthur. 1st Earl (1848-1930); Philosophy & Philosophers; Statesmen TO THE FACULTY, by HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER Poem Text First Line: You tell us in philosophy Last Line: Just as often as you please. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers TRANSCENDENTALISM: A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS', by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop playing, poet! May a brother speak? Subject(s): Thought; Philosophy & Philosophers; Music & Musicians; Thinking |
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