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...lonely place, When I with these untoward thoughts had striven, Beside a pool bare to the eye of heaven I saw a Man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed...espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence ; 60 So that it seems a thing endued with sense, — Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf...

...lonely place, When I with these untoward thoughts had striven, Beside a pool bare to the eye of heaven I saw a Man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed...espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence ; 6° So that it seems a thing endued with sense, — Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf...

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