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- 0:01Speaker 1: Seldom we find, says Solomon dun dunce, half an idea
- 0:05Speaker 1: in the profoundest sonnet, through all the flimsy things we
- 0:09Speaker 1: see at once, as easily as through a naple's bonnet,
- 0:13Speaker 1: trash of all trash, How can a lady donn it
- 0:17Speaker 1: yet heavier far than your petrarchan stuff, fowl downy nonsense
- 0:23Speaker 1: that the faintest puff twirls into trunk paper the while
- 0:26Speaker 1: you con it, And veritably soul is right enough. The
- 0:32Speaker 1: general tuckermanides are arrant bubbles, ephemeral and so transparent. But
- 0:40Speaker 1: this is now You may depend upon it, stable, opaque, immortal,
- 0:47Speaker 1: all by dint of the dear names that lie concealed
- 0:50Speaker 1: within it