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Here is a banquet-table of delights,      A sumptuous feast of true ambrosial food;     Here is a journey among goodly sights,      In choice society or solitude;     Here is a treasury of gems and gold -      Of purest gold and gems of brightest sheen;     Here is a landscape gloriously unroll'd,      Of heights sublime and pleasant vales between.     Here is the realm of Thought, diverse and wide,      To Genius and her sovereign sons assign'd;     The universal church, o'er which preside      The heaven-anointed hierarchy of mind     And spirit; the imperishable pride      And testament and promise of mankind.

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