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Second Sight.

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Rich is the fancy which can double back     All seeming forms, and from cold icicles     Build up high glittering palaces where dwells     Summer perfection, moulding all this wrack     To spirit symmetry, and doth not lack     The power to hear amidst the funeral bells     The eternal heart's wind-melody which swells     In whirlwind flashes all along its track!     So hath the sun made all the winter mine     With gardens springing round me fresh and fair;     On hidden leaves uncounted jewels shine;     I live with forms of beauty everywhere,     Peopling the crumbling waste and icy pool     With sights and sounds of life most beautiful.

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