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murmurs in my ears that I can
He might have said to his friends, as Socrates replied to one who came to offer him deliverance from jail: "Such words I seem to hear, as the mystic worshippers seem to hear the piping of flutes; and the sound of this voice so murmurs in my ears that I can hear no other."
— from Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More

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