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Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!I never sought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you

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Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!I never sought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you Ralph Waldo Emerson

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