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In my last winter by Atlantic seas,
How often, when the long day's task was through,
I found in nights of friendliness with you
The quiet corner of the scholar's ease,
While you explored the Orphic liturgies,
Or old Pythagoras' mystic One and Two,
Or heartened me with Plato's larger view,
Or the world-epic of Empedocles:
It cost you little; but such things as these,
When man goes inland following his star,
When man goes inland where the strangers are,
Build him a house of goodly memories:
So take this book in token, and rejoice
That I am richer having heard your voice.
How often, when the long day's task was through,
I found in nights of friendliness with you
The quiet corner of the scholar's ease,
While you explored the Orphic liturgies,
Or old Pythagoras' mystic One and Two,
Or heartened me with Plato's larger view,
Or the world-epic of Empedocles:
It cost you little; but such things as these,
When man goes inland following his star,
When man goes inland where the strangers are,
Build him a house of goodly memories:
So take this book in token, and rejoice
That I am richer having heard your voice.
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