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54 Theme this but little heard of among men—

The external World is fitted to the Mind;

And the creation (by no lower name

Can it be called) which they with blended might

Accomplish:—this is our high argument.

—Such grateful haunts foregoing, if I oft

Must turn elsewhere—to travel near the tribes

And fellowships of men, and see ill sights

Of madding passions mutually inflamed;

Must hear Humanity in fields and groves

Pipe solitary anguish; or must hang

Brooding above the fierce confederate storm

Of sorrow, barricadoed evermore

Within the walls of cities—may these sounds

Have their authentic comment; that even these

Hearing, I be not downcast or forlorn!—