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GREAT POETS.
The greatest minds have most of common sense,Of common feeling, and all common things;
And still, beneath their high imaginings,
They are as gentle and without pretence,
As tho' unconscious of the difference;
And still their heart capacious cleaves and clings
To common ties, and, from life's household springs,
Drinks, like the rest, with thirst but more intense!
And tho' they, like the mountains, lift their heads
Far out of reach, and out of sight, sometimes,
Their unambitious greatness meekly spreads
Its gentle skirts towards those lower climes,
With valleys of domestic bliss, and meads
Accessible, and flowery as their rhymes!
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