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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 Time's last gift, a written speech
- Wrought of high laughter, loveliness and ease?
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