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chapter-401		chapter-401			.txt	text/plain	195	9	66	Old Chants An ancient song, reciting, ending, Once gazing toward thee, Mother of All, Musing, seeking themes fitted for thee, Accept me, thou saidst, the elder ballads, And name for me before thou goest each ancient poet. (Of many debts incalculable, Haply our New Worlds chieftest debt is to old poems.) Ever so far back, preluding thee, America, Old chants, Egyptian priests, and those of Ethiopia, The Hindu epics, the Grecian, Chinese, Persian, The Biblic books and prophets, and deep idyls of the Nazarene, The Iliad, Odyssey, plots, doings, wanderings of Eneas, Hesiod, Eschylus, Sophocles, Merlin, Arthur, The Border Minstrelsy, the bye-gone ballads, feudal tales, essays, plays, Darting their mighty masterful eyes forward at thee, with as now thy bending neck and head, with courteous hand Thou! Thou! pausing a moment, drooping thine eyes upon them, blent Well pleased, accepting all, curiously prepared for by them, Thou enterest at thy entrance porch.	./cache/chapter-401.txt	./txt/chapter-401.txt