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following words:

: Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
: Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;
: Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew
: From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue;

In the 20th century, Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor was to use Tennyson's expression "the central blue" as the title for his autobiography.

Much of the remainder of the

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