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To hang our head—ostensibly

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To hang our head—ostensibly
And subsequent, to find
That such was not the posture
Of our immortal mind

Affords the sly presumption
That in so dense a fuzz
You—too—take Cobweb attitudes
Upon a plane of Gauze!

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    Fire
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    To hang our head—ostensibly
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