You have to die because no soul has passedThe heavenly threshold since you have opened school,But grass grows there, and rust upon the hingeAnd they are lonely that must keep the watch.
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Heaven blazing into the head Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.
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O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.
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