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XLII. To hang our head ostensibly

TO hang our head ostensibly,
        And subsequent to find
That such was not the posture
        Of our immortal mind,

Affords the sly presumption
        That, in so dense a fuzz,
You, too, take cobweb attitudes
        Upon a plane of gauze!

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