I want to do a fresh install of lion. How do I do this?

I don't have any disks and need clean install on new ssd drive. Is there a way to download from apple?

You have a full size tower (Mac Pro)
You didn't keep the Lion ESD installer package when you did download it.
You 't have a Lion Recovery partition.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15657780#15657780
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1191668
http://www.apple.com/support/lion/installrecovery/
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

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