From following walls I never lift my eye
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ome may know what they seek in school and church,And why they seek it there; for what I searchI must go measuring stone walls, perch on perch; Sure that though not a star of death and birth,So not to be compared, perhaps, in worthTo such resorts of life as Mars and Earth, Though not, I say, a star of death and sin,It yet has poles, and only needs a spinTo show its worldly nature and begin
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