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An Experience

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Wit, weight, or wealth there was not     In anything that was said,     In anything that was done;     All was of scope to cause not     A triumph, dazzle, or dread     To even the subtlest one,     My friend,     To even the subtlest one.     But there was a new afflation -     An aura zephyring round,     That care infected not:     It came as a salutation,     And, in my sweet astound,     I scarcely witted what     Might pend,     I scarcely witted what.     The hills in samewise to me     Spoke, as they grayly gazed,      First hills to speak so yet!     The thin-edged breezes blew me     What I, though cobwebbed, crazed,     Was never to forget,     My friend,     Was never to forget!

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