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Though the following lines of Donne, on the last night of the year, have something in them too scholastic, they are not inelegant:

Yet more abstruse and profound is Donne's reflection upon man as a microcosm:

thoughts so far fetched, as to be not only unexpected, but unnatural, all their books are full.