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1 EXPOSTULATION

AND

REPLY.

"Why, William, on that old grey stone,

"Thus for the length of half a day,

"Why, William, sit you thus alone,

"And dream your time away?

"Where are your books? that light bequeath'd

"To beings else forlorn and blind!

"Up! Up! and drink the spirit breath'd

"From dead men to their kind.