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4. SOURCELESS.

1. Reason is empty, but its use is inexhaustible. In its profundity, verily, it p. 76 resembleth the arch-father of the ten thousand things.

2. "It will blunt its own sharpness,
Will its tangles adjust;
It will dim its own radiance
And be one with its dust."

3. Oh, how calm it seems to remain! I know not whose son it is. Apparently even the Lord it precedes.

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