And what were thou, and earth, and stars, and sea,
If to the human mind's imaginings
Silence and solitude were vacancy?
(Mont Blanc)
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I would give
All that I am to be as thou now art!
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With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.
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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
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Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
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