  LESSONS we learn from what we daily see Of good or evil, if philosophy, Based on those great First Truths, will hold the mind Within its limits—happiness to find. Those great First Truths will teach the human soul That the equator lies not at the pole, That man before his own nose cannot walk, That man without his palate cannot talk; That gravitation tends not to the sky, But to Earth’s center, should he try to fly. |
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