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Rh The tears of lovers are always of great poetical account; but Donne has extended them into worlds. If the lines are not easily understood, they may be read again:⁠

On reading the following lines, the reader may perhaps cry out—Confusion worse confounded!

Who but Donne would have thought that a good man is a telescope?

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