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look, how the floor of heaven / Is thick inlaid with pattens of bright gold: / There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st / But in his motion like an angel sings, / Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; / Such harmony is in immortal souls; / But whilst this muddy vesture of decay / Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.

William Shapespeare

The Merchant of Venice, v, i.

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