Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.
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Fair the soul's recess and shrine,
Magic-built, to last a season,
Masterpiece of love benign!
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We are students of words we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
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