O the mind, mind has mountains cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there.
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That night, that year Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God) my God.
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Birds build - but not I build no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
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I see The lost are like this, and their scourge to be As I am mine, their sweating selves but worse.
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I caught this morning morning's minion, kingdom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon.
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O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve after-comers cannot guess the beauty been.
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