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A NOISELESS, patient spider,
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I mark’d, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated;
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Mark’d how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding,
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It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself;
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Ever unreeling them—ever tirelessly speeding them.
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And you, O my Soul, where you stand,
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Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space,
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Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing,—seeking the spheres, to connect them;
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Till the bridge you will need, be form’d—till the ductile anchor hold;
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Till the gossamer thread you fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul.
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