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Paudeen

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Indignant at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite     Of our old Paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind     Among the stones and thorn trees, under morning light;     Until a curlew cried and in the luminous wind     A curlew answered; and suddenly thereupon I thought     That on the lonely height where all are in Gods eye,     There cannot be, confusion of our sound forgot,     A single soul that lacks a sweet crystaline cry.

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