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If there | be noth|ing new,| but that which is,
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Hath been | before,| how are | our brains |
beguiled,
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Which lab|oring for | invent|ion bear | amiss
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The sec|ond burd|en of | a form|er child.
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Oh that | record | could with | a back|ward look,
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Even | of five | hundred | courses | of the sun,
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Show me | your im|age in | some^an|tique^book,
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Since^mind | at first | in char|acter | was done,
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That I | might see | what the / old world | could
say
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To this | compos|ed wond|er of | your frame;
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Whether | we are mend|ed, or | where* bet|ter
they,
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Or wheth|er rev|olu|tion be | the same.
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Oh sure | I am | the wits | of form|er days,
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To sub|jects worse | have given | admir|ing
praise.