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"While me, and mine forgetting, you will go "To some new love." "Why, no, I tell you no,— "What shall I say such foolish fears to cure? "I only mean to make a little tour, “Just—just to see the world around me; then "With new delight, I shall come home again; "Such tours are quite the rage—at my return "I shall have much to tell, and you to learn; "Of fashions—some becoming, some grotesque "Of change of empires, and ideas novel; "Of buildings, Grecian, Gothic, Arabesque, "And scenery sublime and picturesque; "And all these things with pleasure we'll discuss—" "Ah, me! and what are all these things to us?" "So then, you'd have a bird of genius grovel, "And never see beyond a farmer's hovel?