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<h2>A Noiseless Patient Spider</h2>
<p>A noiseless patient spider,<br/>
I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,<br/>
Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,<br/>
It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament out of itself,<br/>
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.<br/>
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And you O my soul where you stand,<br/>
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,<br/>
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to<br/>
connect them,<br/>
Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold,<br/>
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.<br/></p>
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