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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: When nothing like the need was ? transfer, just Of Joyeux church, exchanged for yonder prig, Our brand-new stone cream-colored masterpiece. Well ? and you know, and not since this one year, The quiet seaside country? So do I: And like it, in a manner, just because Nothing is prominently likable To vulgar eye without a soul behind, Which, breaking surface, brings before the ball Of sight, a beauty buried everywhere. f If we have souls, know how to see and use, One place performs, like any other place, The proper service every place on earth Was framed to furnish man with: serves alike To give him note that, through the place he sees, A place is signified he never saw, But, if he lack not soul, may learn to know. i Earth's ugliest walled and ceiled imprisonment May suffer, through its single rent in roof, Admittance of a cataract of light Beyond attainment through earth's palace-panes Pinholed athwart their windowed filagree By twinklings sobered from the sun outside. Doubtless the High Street of our village here Imposes hardly as Rome's Corso could: And our projected race for sailing-boats Next Sunday, when we celebrate our Saint, Falls very short of that attractiveness, That artistry in festive spectacle, Paris insures you when she welcomes back (When shall it be ?) the Assembly from Versailles; While the best fashion and intelligence Collected at the counter of our Mayor (Dry goods he deals in, grocery beside) What time the post-bag brings the news from Vire,? I fear me much, it scarce would hold its own, That circle, that assorted sense and wit, With Five o'clock Tea in a house we know. Still, 'tis the check that gives the leap its lift. The nullity of cultivated souls, e Even advantaged by their news from Vire,...
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