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Upon A House Shaken By The Land Agitation

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How should the world be luckier if this house,     Where passion and precision have been one     Time out of mind, became too ruinous     To breed the lidless eye that loves the sun?     And the sweet laughing eagle thoughts that grow     Where wings have memory of wings, and all     That comes of the best knit to the best? Although     Mean roof-trees were the sturdier for its fall,     How should their luck run high enough to reach     The gifts that govern men, and after these     To gradual Times last gift, a written speech     Wrought of high laughter, loveliness and ease?

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