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HE props assist the house

Until the house is built,

And then the props withdraw—

And adequate, erect,

The house supports itself;

Ceasing to recollect

The auger and the carpenter.

Just such a retrospect

Hath the perfected life,

A past of plank and nail,

And slowness,—then the scaffolds drop—

Affirming it a soul.