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Standouts: "O Black and Unknown Bards"

"You sang not deeds of heroes or of kings;
No chant of bloody war, no exulting paean
Of arms-won triumphs; but your humble strings
You touched in chord with music empyrean.
You sang far better than you knew; the songs
That for your listeners' hungry hearts sufficed
Still live -- but more than this to you belongs:
You sang a race from wood and stone to Christ." (26)