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If you are not located in the United -States, you'll have to check the laws of the country where you are -located before using this ebook. - - - -Title: Cosmos -Author: Ernest McGaffey -Release Date: August 06, 2015 [EBook #49631] -Language: English -Character set encoding: US-ASCII - - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COSMOS *** - - - - -Produced by Al Haines. - - - - - -[Illustration: Ernest McGaffey] - - - - - *COSMOS* - - - *By ERNEST McGAFFEY* - - - - The Philosopher Press - Wausau Wisconsin - - - - - COPYRIGHTED 1903 - BY ERNEST McGAFFEY - - - - - DEDICATED TO - CARTER H. HARRISON - OF CHICAGO - - - - - *COSMOS* - - - *ONE* - - - I - - Go search the aeons an you will - Where withered leaves of Doubt are whirled, - And who hath solved this riddle, Life, - Or Death--that moves with sails unfurled, - Beyond the straining eyes of man - Marooned upon an unknown world. - - II - - Nor tongue hath told, nor vision caught - That paradox, Primeval Cause; - Each age has had some parable - Each age succeeding marked the flaws; - While shifted, with the calendar, - What men have termed generic laws. - - III - - Creed after creed behold them now - Like Etna on Vesuvius piled; - Till, scaled to earth by drifting sands - They lie in later days reviled, - And pushed aside by Time's rough hand - As toys are, by a peevish child. - - IV - - For Priest-made doctrine reads grotesque. - And earthly worship is but dross; - Whether it be your Brahm of Ind - Or squat and hideous Chinese Joss; - Or Jove, aloft on cloud-capped throne - Or the pale Christ upon his cross. - - V - - Why question still the blindfold graves - Or pluck the veil of Isis dread? - Over Death's icy mystery - A pall immutable is spread; - And never tear-wrung agony - Shall move the lips we loved--once dead. - - VI - - Why grope in labyrinthian maze? - Why palter thus with doubt and fear? - The Past is but the mollusc print - The Future looms, a barrier sheer; - The Present centers in To-day - The hope for men is Now, and Here. - - VII - - Believe no scientific cant - That man descended from the ape; - Gorilla-like once beat his breast - And grew at last to human shape, - To watch the flocks, and till the fields, - Harry the seas and bruise the grape. - - VIII - - For though enrobed in savage skins - And though his forehead backward ran, - The brute was not all-dominant - Some spark revealed a Primal plan; - His brain was coupled with his will - The hairy mammal still was man. - - IX - - And ever as the cycles waned - He came and went, he rose and fell, - At times transformed, as butterflies - That rise from chrysalis in the cell; - And oft through hate and ignorance - Sunk downward deep as fabled Hell. - - X - - But through it all, and with it all - How-e'er the upward trending veers, - He fought his fight against great odds - He peopled ice-bound hemispheres, - Endured the sweltering Torrid Zones - And stamped his impress on the years. - - - - - *TWO* - - - I - - What romance hast thy childhood known - Of God-made world in seven days? - Of woven sands and swaying grass - And bird and beast in forest ways, - Of panoramas vast unrolled - Before a stern Creator's gaze? - - II - - Of rivers ribboning the vales; - Of plains that stretched in smoothness down, - And unborn seasons yet to be - Spring's violet banks, and Autumn's brown; - Bright Summer, mistress of the sun, - And grey-beard Winter's boreal crown. - - III - - And when at length the scheme complete - Unfolded to the Maker's sight, - How He, Almighty and divine - Said in his power, "Let there be light!" - Gave sun and moon, and sowed the stars - Along the furrows of the night! - - IV - - Lo! every nation has its tale - And every people, how they be; - Whether where Southern zephyrs loose - The blooms from off the tamarind tree, - Or where the six-month seasons bide - Around the cloistered Polar sea. - - V - - And Science with unyielding scales - Weighs each and all of varied styles; - And like a Goddess molds decrees - Oblivious both to tears or smiles; - Points out the error, reads the rule - And God with Nature reconciles. - - VI - - But who shall sift the false and true? - What Oracle the rule enforce? - Not man-made creed, nor man-learned law - Is wise to fathom Nature's course; - No sea is deeper than its bed - No stream is higher than its source. - - VII - - Vain hope to solve the Infinite! - Mere words to babble, when they say - "Thus Science teaches,"--"thus our God"-- - Thus this or that--what of it, pray? - The marvel overlapping all-- - Go ask the Sphynx of Yesterday. - - VIII - - We know the All, and nothing know; - The great we ken as well as least; - But sum it all when we have said - That man is different from the beast; - And spite of all Theology - The Pagan's equal to the Priest. - - IX - - And globes will lapse, and suns expire; - As stars have fallen, worlds can change; - Forever shall the centuries roll - And roving planets tireless range; - And Life be masked in secrecy - With Death, as ever, passing strange. - - X - - And trow not, Mortal, in thy pride - That where yon beetling column stands - Rests Permanence; 'twill disappear - To sink in marsh or barren lands, - Where bitterns boom, or sunlight stares - Across the immemorial sands. - - - - - *THREE* - - - I - - Of old when man to being came - He fashioned Gods of brittle bone; - Bowed down to wooden fetiches - Or worshipped idols carved from stone; - And, locked in Superstition's grasp - For sacrifice made lives atone. - - II - - And Fear was then the Higher Law - And fleshly joys the aftermath; - He knew no screed of Righteousness - And trod no straight and narrow path; - His Deity a terror was - A Demon winged with might and wrath. - - III - - And then where Nilus dipped his feet - By Egypt sands, rose temples tall - To Isis and Osiris--Ptah-- - And many a God foredoomed to fall; - Where sank the shades of Pharaoh's reign? - Whence have they vanished, one and all? - - IV - - But whiles to other years advanced - And now by cosmic marvels won, - Men sought remote Pelagian shores - Where breeze and spray their tapestry spun, - To wait the coming of the day - And there adore the rising sun. - - V - - This passed; the Gods of Greece and Rome - In splendor thronged the earth and skies; - Jove, with the thunders in his hand - Apollo of the star-lit eyes, - Aurora, Priestess of the Dawn - And Pan of haunting melodies,-- - - VI - - And countless more; their temples fair - Where reverent Pagans curved the knee, - Mid sweet, perpetual summer stood - While murmured as the murmuring bee, - The lulling sweep of listless brine - Beside the green AEgean sea. - - VII - - And merged in island-wooded calms - By towering groves of ancient oak, - where Triton's charging cavalry - Against the cliffs of Britain broke, - With horrid rite of human blood - The Celtic Druids moved and spoke. - - VIII - - Still wheeled the cycles; still did men - With new religions make them wise; - Mahomet rose magnificent - As rainbow in the eastern skies; - With Seven Heavens of Koran taught - And Houris with the sloe-black eyes. - - IX - - Brahm, Baal, Dagon, Moloch, Thor, - And legions more had long sufficed; - Heavens in turn with bliss diverse - And Hells with ebon glaciers iced; - And latest on celestial scrolls - The prophets wrote the name of Christ. - - X - - We need them not; No! each and all - Will load Tradition's dusty shelf; - As shattered Idols, put away - To lie forgot like broken delf; - Humanity is over all! - And Man's redemption in himself. - - - - - *FOUR* - - - I - - The morning stars together sang - So runs the story, in that time, - When groves were loud with melody - And ripples danced to liquid rhyme; - Far in the embryonic spheres - Before the earth was in her prime. - - II - - Then first the feline-padded gales - Unleashed and prowling journeyed free, - To purr amid the cowering grass - Or roar in stormy jubilee, - Or, joining in with Ocean, growl - A hoarse duet of wind and sea. - - III - - And where by meadowy rushes dank - The yellow sunbeams thick were sown, - And brooks flowed down through April ways - O'er pebbled bar and shingly stone, - There first welled up in gurgling strain - The lisping current's monotone. - - IV - - And oft was heard, in forest aisles - Where rocking trees of leaves were thinned, - And drear November wandered lorn - With wild wide eyes and hair unpinned, - A wailing harp of minor chords - Struck by the strong hands of the wind. - - V - - And Man, through imitative art, - With clumsy tool and method crude, - Copied these echoes as he might - To soothe him in his solitude; - And when that other sound was dumb - His reed-notes quavered music rude. - - VI - - And as the gentler graces came - To vivify barbaric night, - So Poesy, with singing Lyre, - Descended from Parnassian height, - With constellations aureoled - Her raiment wove of flowing light. - - VII - - And in Man's heart a thrill leaped up; - His eye was lit by prophet gleams; - He sought the truth of When and How - He voiced the lyrics of the streams; - His beard was tossed, his locks were gray - His soul beneath the spell of dreams. - - VIII - - Thus numbers came; and Poets lived - To chant the glories of the Race; - Their rhyme on limp papyrus roll - Or etched on crumbling pillar's base, - Has long outlived the Kings they sung - And conquered even Time and Space. - - IX - - Aye! vain the vaunt of Heroes; vain - The deeds that once were thought sublime; - And vain your Monarchs, briefly staged - In tinselled royal pantomime; - Their House was builded on the sands - And they unworth a random rhyme. - - X - - Vain are the works of man; most vain - His bubbled Glory, Aye! or Fame; - More fragile than a last-year's leaf - Unnoticed of the sunset's flame; - And naught endures unless it stands - Linked with a deathless Poet's name. - - - - - *FIVE* - - - I - - How flourished then the lesser arts - As man to manhood slowly grew? - With blackened stick from ruddy fires - That on his cave reflections threw, - He scrawled the rock which sheltered him - And thus the first rude picture drew. - - II - - And catching hints from Nature's lore - He squeezed his colors from the clay; - Steeped leaf and bark, and dyed the skins - That round about his dwelling lay; - And, urged by vanity, his cheeks - Were daubed with dash of pigments gay. - - III - - So, ever as the seasons died - His mind expanded with his will; - He saw the dry leaves touched with gold - And grass grow tawny on the hill; - Found etchings on the ruffled streams - And marked the sunset's hectic thrill. - - IV - - And dreaming thus, with defter skill - He fast employed his nights and days, - Spun magic webs of chequered lights - And limned October's purple haze; - While women's faces from his brush - Fired, like wine, the se'er's gaze. - - V - - Until at last was handed down - Beyond the treasure-trove of Greece, - Beyond the strain that Sappho sung - And reveries of the Golden Fleece, - The art of Titian, Rubens, Thal, - And Tintoretto's masterpiece. - - VI - - Thus, too, as man with curious eye - Had noted outline, curve, and form, - In toppling surge or lofty crag - In woman's bosom beating warm, - In cloudy shapes revealed on high - Intaglios of the wind and storm,-- - - VII - - He modelled from the plastic loam; - On shell and boulder graved a sign; - Chiselled the stately obelisks - With hieroglyphics, line on line; - Colossal wrought his haughty Kings - Or metal-traced the clambering vine. - - VIII - - And many an image was his work - And many a statuette and bust; - Some that remain, but most that lie - As shards to outer darkness thrust; - These buried under coral sands - Those cloaked beneath forgotten dust. - - IX - - Upon the lonely washes that stretch - Where the Egyptian rivers croon, - And floats above the Pyramids - On tropic nights the lifeless moon, - The mightiest waits,--the brooding Sphynx-- - Half-lion and half Daemon hewn. - - X - - So Sculpture, pierced in mountain sides - Or dragged from Mythologic seas, - Still holds a sway; and worlds will bow - In homage yet to such as these-- - The noble bronze by Phidias wrought, - The marbles of Praxiteles. - - - - - *SIX* - - - I - - To those who for their country bleed - To those who die for freedom's sake, - All Hail! for them the Immortal dawns - In waves of lilied silver break; - For them in dusky-templed night - The eternal stars a halo make. - - II - - In History's tome their chronicle - An ever-living page shall be; - The souls who flashed like sabers drawn - The men who died to make men free; - Their flag in every land has flown - Their sails have whitened every sea. - - III - - On gallows high they met their doom - Or breasted straight the serried spears - Of Tyranny; in dungeons damp - Scarred on the stones their name appears; - For them the flower of Memory - Shall blossom, watered by our tears. - - IV - - But Conquest, Glory, transient Fame, - What baubles these to struggle for, - When draped in sulphurous films uprise - The cannon-throated fiends of War! - What childish trumpery cheap as this-- - The trophies of a Conqueror? - - V - - How many an army marches forth - With bugle-note or battle-hymn, - To drench the soil in human gore - And multiply Golgothas grim; - And all for what? a Ruler's pique - Religion's call, or Harlot's whim. - - VI - - And ghastliest far among them all - Where torn and stained the thirsty sod - With carnage reeks--where standards fly, - And horses gallop, iron-shod, - Are those remorseless mockeries - The wars they wage in name of God. - - VIII - - Vague, dim and vague, and noiselessly, - The Warrior's triumphs fade like haze; - And building winds have heaped the sands - O'er monuments of martial days; - While Legend throws a flickering gleam - Where the tall Trojan towers blaze. - - VIII - - Yea! whether sought for Woman's face - Or, Conquest-seeking, seaward poured, - Or at the beck of Holy Church - War still shall be the thing abhorred; - And they who by the sword would live - Shall surely perish by the sword. - - IX - - Yet whether at Thermopylae - Where battled the intrepid Greek, - Or Waterloo--their quarry still - The red-eyed ravening vultures seek; - Where prowl the jackal and the fox - And the swart raven whets his beak. - - X - - And somewhere, though by Alien seas - The tide of Hate unceasing frets; - For dawn to dusk, and dusk to dawn - The red sun rises, no, nor sets, - Save where the wraith of War is seen - Above her glittering bayonets. - - - - - *SEVEN* - - - I - - How fared the body when the soul - In olden days had taken flight? - Had passed as through a shutter slips - A trembling shaft of summer light! - And all that once was Life's warm glow - Had sudden changed to dreadful night! - - II - - How fared the mourners; how the Priest; - How spoken his funereal theme? - What dirges for the Heroic dead - What flowers to soften death's extreme? - Was Life to them a wayside Inn - Death the beginning of a dream? - - III - - We cannot know; except by tales - Caught in the traveller's flying loom, - Or carven granite friezes found - Or parchment penned in convent gloom; - Or here and there, defying Time - Some long-dead Emperor's giant tomb. - - IV - - Where tower the steep Egyptian cones - By couriers of the storm bestrid, - Wrapped in his blackening cerements - Sahura lies in shadow hid, - While billowy sand-curves rise and dash - Like surf, against his Pyramid. - - V - - And on the bald Norweyan shores - When Odin for the Viking came, - A ship was launched, and on it placed - With solemn state, the Hero's frame; - The torch applied, and sent to sea, - A double burial,--wave and flame. - - VI - - And when the Hindu Prince lay prone-- - In final consecration dire - His Hindu Princess followed on - And climbed the blazing funeral pyre, - To stand in living sacrifice - Transfigured in her robes of fire. - - VII - - Where the red Indian of the Plains - To the Great Spirit bowed his head, - On pole-built scaffold, Eagle-plumed, - The painted warrior laid his dead; - Beneath, the favorite charger slain - And by the Chief his weapons spread. - - VIII - - We clothe our dead in modish dress - Dust unto dust the Preacher saith, - The church-bells toll, the organ peals, - And mourners wait with ebbing breath; - Oh! grave, this is thy mockery, - The weird farce-comedy of Death. - - IX - - Nay! burn the shell with simplest rites; - Scatter its ashes to the skies; - And on the stairways of the clouds - In winding spirals let it rise; - What needs the soul of mortal garb - Whether in Hell or Paradise? - - X - - Aye! lost and gone; what cares the corse - When Death unfolds his sable wings, - Whether it rest in wind-swept tree - Or where the deep-sea echo rings? - Be laid to sleep in Potter's Field - Or lone Iona's cairn of Kings? - - - - - *EIGHT* - - - I - - Above unsightly city roofs - Where smoky serpents trail the sky, - Broods Commerce; in her factories - A million clacking shuttles fly; - Where, choked with lint, in sickly air - The little children droop and die. - - II - - The rattling clash of jarring wheels - Against the windows echoing beats; - And when the pallid gas-jets flare - Where sombre night with twilight meets, - Like flotsam on the stream of Fate - The toiler's myriads crowd the streets. - - III - - With hiving tumult to and fro - Trade's devotees, a hurrying mass, - Through the long corridor of years - In due procession rise and pass; - To earn their wage, to seek their goal - And melt, like dew-drops on the grass. - - IV - - And here, within the age of Gain - Our forest-masted harbors shine - With shimmering fleets; and we go on - To climes afar of palm and vine, - And in the warp of Traffic weave - A sinister and base design, - - V - - Of mild and hapless Islanders - Who fall before our soldiers' aim; - Of broken faith--of sophistries-- - Of sin, of blood-shed, and of shame; - Oh! Commerce, Commerce, who shall tell - The crimes committed in thy name. - - VI - - Turn, turn my Fancy, inland borne - Where Nature's solace shall not fail - To ease the heart; view skyey seas - Where cloud armadas, sail on sail, - Manned by the winds go warping down - Below the far horizon's trail. - - VII - - And as the budding willows blow - When March comes whirling past the lanes, - With bird-note wild, and fifing winds - And undertone of sibilant rains, - On slopes where Winter's garment melts - Blue as the sea are violet stains. - - VIII - - Where cattle seek the shaded pools - And silence folds the sun-burned lands, - Her auburn tresses backward flung - Mid-Summer, like to Ceres stands, - Beside the fields of waving grain - With harvest-apples in her hands. - - IX - - And stealthily through winnowing dusk - I see the curling smoke ascend, - Where lie the farms; and evermore - Where hope, and health, and manhood blend; - While stubble shorn and pastures bare - Proclaim the waning season's end. - - X - - And as beyond the naked hills - The chill November sunset dies, - And cloudward now a phalanx swims - Where guttural honking fills the skies, - Black-sculptured on approaching night - And southward bound, the wild-goose flies. - - - - - *NINE* - - - I - - Behold the kindred human types - Tribe, Sept, and class, Race, Caste, and Clan; - Red, Black and Yellow; White and Brown; - Processions of Primordial Man - That wax apace, and stream across - In one unending caravan. - - II - - The Fisher-People with their shells - And dwellers of the Age of Stone; - The Kirghiz of the Western Steppes - The Greek, the Turk, the Mongol shown, - The Goth, the Frank,--I see them pass - Like flash-lights by a mirror thrown. - - III - - So, too, the Arab, burnoose clad - Who braves the stifling Simoon dry, - Adrift upon Saharan tides - His awkward camels lurching high, - Long, lank, uncouth, but staunch as Death, - Ships of the Desert, sailing by. - - IV - - Note the Caucasian in his pride - Who prates of moldy pedigrees; - A mushroom he, compared in Eld - To the impassive, sly Chinese; - Their records co-extant with Time - And swarming by the sundown seas. - - V - - Each comes and goes; as came and went - Rameses' millions; in their day - What boast was made of Egypt's Kings - How God-like seemed their valorous play; - But cynic years dispersed their line - Swift hurried with the winds away. - - VI - - Aye! even as motes they had their grace - For a brief moment, son and sire; - Then passed; as foam that sinks at sea - Or chords which flee the Minstrel's lyre; - Where rot the walls by Sidon raised? - And where the long-lost hulls of Tyre? - - VII - - And all men listen in their turn - To the same Sirens; greed of Gain-- - Love--Hate--Revenge--the lust of Power-- - And craze o'er fellow-man to reign-- - Ambition's lure--these intertwine - Like links that form an endless chain. - - VIII - - Since Power is but the instant's clutch - And naught so trivial as a Name, - What crucial proof shall fix men's worth - On lasting tablets write their claim; - So that their memories may fill - A niche within the walls of Fame? - - IX - - The test is not of Birth nor Race - Since each is worthy of his hire; - It rests in what men do for men - Uplifted by the soul's desire, - To tread Life's fiery furnaces - And save their brothers from the fire. - - X - - And ranging far and searching deep - However though the annals be, - We find but one nigh faultless man - There was none other such as He; - The Jew who taught and practiced Love - The man who walked by Galilee. - - - - - *TEN* - - - I - - Enough my Muse; thy message cast - As stone from out a sling is hurled, - Let drop to night; or re-appear - Where morning's gathering grey is pearled, - And the bent sun, like Sisyphus, - Toils laboring up the underworld. - - II - - Let be; thy wisdom knoweth well - The just degrees of right and wrong; - Although mayhap unmarked by men - Shall fall the echoes of thy song; - Unheeded by the pilgrim years - Unrecked of, by the heedless throng. - - III - - And yet before the highways part - And thou and I in darkness dwell, - Do thou thy swiftest Herald send - And this as final warning tell; - 'Banish all hope of gilded Heaven - And laugh to scorn the fires of Hell'. - - IV - - Phantasmal dance those dual sprites - Mere witch-craft mummeries of the brain; - The lying sorcery of the Priests - A worldly influence to retain; - Where shalt thou go? What quest is thine? - Where falls the single drop of rain? - - V - - But Courage, Faith, and Constancy, - The cardinal virtues as I deem, - May well be worshipped, as indeed - The lilies of the soul they seem; - Undying in their fragrance rare - And glassed upon a sacred stream. - - VI - - Know thou, the Ideal Harmony - That fills all space, below, above, - Is not in Creed, nor Form, nor Rite - Nor in those things thou dreamest of; - But holds within its breadth and scope - The sole and only note of Love. - - VII - - Reject all Creeds; and yet in each - Seek such material as thou can, - With here a tenet, there a thought - Whether it sprang from Christ or Pan; - And make the key-stone of thy arch - The common brotherhood of Man. - - VIII - - And striving thus, a happier creed - In time to come shall burst its bud, - The pure air cleared of battle-smoke - And war no more by field and flood; - Where men can lift up guiltless hands - Uncrimsoned by a brother's blood. - - IX - - When nevermore in calm or storm - Shall hawk-like hover on the seas, - The canvas of opposing ships - Their pennants floating to the breeze; - And golden hopes will supersede - The apples of Hesperides. - - X - - When man-emancipated man - Through loftier purpose wins control; - With Justice as his only God - To reign supreme o'er heart and soul; - And Love, sun-like, illuminates - The one, the true, the perfect whole. - - - - - *NOTES TO COSMOS* - - - - Notes to Cosmos - - -Certain stanzas once intended for the original are here given. They are -set down according to the chapters in which they were to have appeared. - - - Chapter Two - - Of trees that stirred in early Spring - The slow sap moving in their veins; - Of flowers that dyed the woodland slopes - The primrose pale, and daisy-chains; - Sun-kissed betimes, or overmourned - By shimmery tears of sobbing rains. - - - Chapter Four - - And all night long the restless sea - Against its barriers rose and fell, - Till grey-eyed Dawn, by lonely sands - Saw flash and fade the last broad swell, - Before her there the ebb-tide's gleam - And at her feet a murmuring shell. - - And then were heard the Elder Bards - In full, Prophetic tone sublime, - Their eyes ablaze with ecstacy - And on their lips the living rhyme; - King-honored in an age of Kings - And on their beards the frosts of Time. - - - Chapter Eight - - And when a-down the bare brown lanes - Pattered the swift, white feet of Spring, - I saw the velvet-golden flash - That marked the yellow-hammer's wing - A-curve on high; and later heard - The robin, and the blue-bird sing. - - Far seaward on unnumbered isles - Mid scent of spice and drowsy balm, - The lotos-eating Islanders - Lay soothed to sleep by utter calm; - Low at their feet the pulsing tides - And o'er their heads the tufted palm. - - - Chapter Nine - - Stark warriors of the Age of Stone - With pristine valor all elate, - Who sought and slew the great Cave Bear - And robbed the tigress of her mate; - And, weaponed with the ax and spear, - Defied the towering mammoth's hate. - - And slant-eyed Mongols, yellow-skinned, - Who traversed Western Steppes afar, - Drank mare's milk, and observed their flocks - White-clustered 'neath the Morning Star; - Or, sallying forth with lance and bow - Engaged in fierce Nomadic war. - - On vine-clad hills was found the Gaul; - Above him glistened Alpine snows: - And lower down where valleys lay - Loved of the lily and the rose, - By moon-light tranced, the nightingale - Sang silvery-sweet adagios. - - - - - - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COSMOS *** - - - - -A Word from Project Gutenberg - - -We will update this book if we find any errors. - -This book can be found under: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49631 - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so -the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. -Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this -license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg(tm) -electronic works to protect the Project Gutenberg(tm) concept and -trademark. 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