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- AT ALGECIRAS -- A MEDITATON UPON DEATH
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- THE heron-billed pale cattle-birds
- That feed on some foul parasite
- Of the Moroccan flocks and herds
- Cross the narrow Straits to light
- In the rich midnight of the garden trees
- Till the dawn break upon those mingled seas.
- Often at evening when a boy
- Would I carry to a friend --
- Hoping more substantial joy
- Did an older mind commend --
- Not such as are in Newton's metaphor,
- But actual shells of Rosses' level shore.
- Greater glory in the Sun,
- An evening chill upon the air,
- Bid imagination run
- Much on the Great Questioner;
- What He can question, what if questioned I
- Can with a fitting confidence reply.
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