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With other Countesses of Blank--but rank; At once the "lie"[683] and the _élite_ of crowds; Who pass like water filtered in a tank, All purged and pious from their native clouds; Or paper turned to money by the Bank: No matter how or why, the passport shrouds The _passée_ and the past; for good society Is no less famed for tolerance than piety,--