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Blest is that hour when breeze of poesy From far the ancient fragrance wafts to me; This time thrice blest, because it came unsought, "Sweet suppliance," and dear, because unbought.

You could see mighty outlines, singly and in groups, of gods and beasts and men, in combat, in suppliance, in death and burial.

The voice of jubilee That gladdened all the air, Fell sudden to a quavering key Of suppliance and prayer.

He got as far as a line which read: "When Greece her knees in suppliance bent," when he stuck there.

They would rise from their suppliance only long enough to glance at the face of the picture, then fall again and renew their paroxysms of ungainly prayer.