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If The Foolish Call Them 'Flowers,'

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If the foolish call them 'flowers,'     Need the wiser tell?     If the savans 'classify' them,     It is just as well!     Those who read the Revelations     Must not criticise     Those who read the same edition     With beclouded eyes!     Could we stand with that old Moses     Canaan denied, --     Scan, like him, the stately landscape     On the other side, --     Doubtless we should deem superfluous     Many sciences     Not pursued by learnd angels     In scholastic skies!     Low amid that glad _Belles lettres_     Grant that we may stand,     Stars, amid profound Galaxies,     At that grand 'Right hand'!

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