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Transcendentalism

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It is told, in Buddhi-theosophic schools,             There are rules.     By observing which, when mundane labor irks     One can simulate quiescence     By a timely evanescence     From his Active Mortal Essence,             (Or his Works.)     The particular procedure leaves research             In the lurch,     But, apparently, this matter-moulded form         Is a kind of outer plaster,         Which a well-instructed Master         Can remove without disaster             When he's warm.     And to such as mourn an Indian Solar Clime             At its prime     'Twere a thesis most immeasurably fit,         So expansively elastic,         And so plausibly fantastic,         That one gets enthusiastic             For a bit.

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