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    "text": "They do but grope in learning’s pedant round,",
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   {
    "text": "Who on the fantasies of sense bestow",
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    "text": "An idol substance, bidding us bow low",
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    "text": "Before those shades of being which are found,",
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    "text": "Stirring or still, on man’s brief trial-ground;",
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    "text": "As if such shapes and moods, which come and go,",
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    "text": "Had aught of Truth or Life in their poor show,",
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    "text": "To sway or judge, and skill to sane or wound.",
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    "text": "Son of immortal seed, high-destined Man!",
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    "text": "Know thy dread gift⁠—a creature, yet a cause:",
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    "text": "Each mind is its own centre, and it draws",
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    "text": "Home to itself, and moulds in its thought’s span",
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    "text": "All outward things, the vassals of its will,",
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    "text": "Aided by Heaven, by earth unthwarted still.",
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