(He that searches, with tireless eyes

In a turret-chamber under the skies)

Passion and joy, and sorrow and laughter,

Life and death, and the things thereafter.

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To an Elzevir Cicero

Dust-covered book, that very few men know,

Even as very few men understand

The glory of an ancient, storied land

In the wild current of the ages’ flow,