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Glee — The great storm is over — Glee ! the great storm is over ! Four have recovered the land ; Forty gone down together Into the boiling sand. Ring, for the scant salvation... Poet:	Great Men & Fools do often me Inspire *** * *** Great Men & Fools do often me Inspire But the Greater Fool the Greater Liar Poet:	Great Streets of silence led away Great Streets of silence led away To Neighborhoods of Pause — Here was no Notice — no Dissent No Universe — no laws — By Clocks, 'twas Morning, and for Night The Bells at Distance called — But Epoch... Poet:	Great things are done *** * *** Great things are done when Men & Mountains meet This is not Done by jostling in the Street Poet:
On a great coxcomb (recovering from an Indisposition) Narcissus (as Ovid informs us) expir'd, Consum'd by the flames his own beauty had fir'd; But N---o (who like him is charm'd with his face, And sighs for his other fair-self in the glass)... Poet:	On the Great Encouragement On the Great Encouragement Given by English Nobility & Gentry to Correggio Rubens Rembrandt Reynolds Gainsborough Catalani DuCrowe & Dilberry Doodle As the Ignorant Savage will sell his own Wife For a Sword or a Cutlass a... Poet:	The Life we have is very great. The Life we have is very great. The Life that we shall see Surpasses it, we know, because It is Infinity. But when all Space has been beheld And all Dominion shown The smallest Human Heart's extent ... Poet:	You said that I "was Great" — one Day — You said that I "was Great" — one Day — Then "Great" it be — if that please Thee — Or Small — or any size at all — Nay — I'm the size suit Thee — Tall — like the Stag — would that? Or lower — like the Wren —... Poet: