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XLIII.
With words for chains, in links of prose or rhyme,We proudly fix the Homeless in his place;
Naming Eternity, we think of time;
Naming Infinity, we think of space;
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On vast immutabilities of dust;
The deathless monuments of human trust,
Which passing hours, or moments, still efface.
Proud of our foolscap, and its jangled bells;
Blind to the All-Apparent, All-Unknown,
Who tips with suns his spires and pinnacles;
Our ignorance on our vanity we enthrone,
And in a little chapel of our own
Creep to the worship of dead syllables.
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