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46 So I, that had resolved to bring
 * Conviction to a ghost,

And found it quite a different thing From any human arguing,
 * Yet dared not quit my post:

But, keeping still the end in view
 * To which I hoped to come,

I strove to prove the matter true By putting everything I knew
 * Into an axiom:

Commencing every single phrase
 * With 'therefore' or 'because,'

I blindly reeled, a hundred ways, About the syllogistic maze,
 * Unconscious where I was.