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 Thus came, one day, to Blasio’s wicket

Some strong hints and a railway ticket;

And, sick at last of screeching dogma

To empty walls, he took the first

And last, and left the Sondrian quagmire,

First shaking off its mire accurst;

And therewith learned two truths at least,—

That deep of ignorance is the thirst;

And that, while earth spins west to east,

Rome remains Rome, and priest a priest.