first line (public domain): "Why, William, on that old gray stone, Thus for the length of half a day, Why, William, sit you thus alone, And dream your time away?
"Where are your books?—that light bequeathed To Beings else forlorn and blind! Up! up! and drunk the spirit breathed From dead men to their kind.
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