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Hold thou the good: define it well:
For fear divine philosophy
Should push beyond her mark and be
Procuress to the Lords of Hell.

Source: In Memoriam, 51 (Note: the stanza numbers used here refer to the later edn. of the poem which includes the additional stanza 39)
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (Aug 6 1809-1892), English poet; He was the Poet Laureate, 1850-92 who wrote Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 and Idylls of the King, 1885.

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