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INVISIBLE SIGHTS.
‘So far away so long—and now
Returned to England?—Come with me!
Some of our great “celebrities”
You will be glad to see!’
Returned to England?—Come with me!
Some of our great “celebrities”
You will be glad to see!’
Carlyle—the Laureate—Browning—these!
These walking bipeds—Nay, you joke!—
Each wondrous power for thirty years
O'er us head-downward folk
These walking bipeds—Nay, you joke!—
Each wondrous power for thirty years
O'er us head-downward folk
Wrapt skylike, at the Antipodes,—
Those common limbs—that common trunk!
'Tis the Arab-Jinn who reached the clouds,
Into his bottle shrunk.
Those common limbs—that common trunk!
'Tis the Arab-Jinn who reached the clouds,
Into his bottle shrunk.
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The flashing Mind—the boundless Soul
We felt ubiquitous, that mash
Medullary or cortical—
That six inch brain-cube!—Trash!
We felt ubiquitous, that mash
Medullary or cortical—
That six inch brain-cube!—Trash!
1873.
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