Far from all resort of mirth,

Save the cricket on the hearth,

Or the bellman’s drowsy charm

To bless the doors from nightly harm.

Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, 85

Be seen in some high lonely tower,

Where I may oft [outwatch the Bear],

[With thrice great Hermes], or unsphere

The spirit of Plato, to unfold

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