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144 When shall his equal be? Down from the stellar height
 * Sees he the planet and all on its girth—

India, Columbia, and Europe—his eagle-sight
 * Sweeps at a glance all the wrong upon earth.

Races or sects were to him a profanity:
 * Hindoo and Negro and Kelt were as one;

Large as mankind was his splendid humanity,
 * Large in its record the work he has done.

What need to mention men of minor note,
 * When there be minds that all the heights attain?

What school-boy knoweth not the hand that wrote
 * "Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain"?

What man that speaketh English e'er can lift
 * His voice 'mid scholars, who hath missed the lore

Of Berkeley Curran, Sheridan, and Swift,
 * The art of Foley and the songs of Moore?