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Thoughts 6

Part of the cluster THOUGHTS.

6.

OF what I write from myself—As if that were not the  
 resumé; Of Histories—As if such, however complete, were not  
 less complete than my poems; As if the shreds, the records of nations, could possibly  
 be as lasting as my poems; As if here were not the amount of all nations, and of  
 all the lives of heroes.

Part of the cluster THOUGHTS.

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