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From The Original Draft Of The Poem 'To William Shelley'.

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1.     The world is now our dwelling-place;     Where'er the earth one fading trace     Of what was great and free does keep,     That is our home!...     Mild thoughts of man's ungentle race     Shall our contented exile reap;     For who that in some happy place     His own free thoughts can freely chase     By woods and waves can clothe his face     In cynic smiles? Child! we shall weep.     2.     This lament,     The memory of thy grievous wrong     Will fade...     But genius is omnipotent     To hallow...

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