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The things
we thought
that we
should do
We other
things have
done
But those
peculiar
industries
Have never
been begun.
The Lands
we thought that we
should seek
When large
enough to
run
By Speculation
ceded
To Speculation's
Son -
The Heaven,
in which we
hoped to pause
When Discipline
was done
Untenable to
Logic
But possibly
the one -
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