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Many Mansions

The last majority attained,
 
And shut from its small house of dust,
 
Into the heritage of air
 
The spirit goes because it must:
 
And halts before the multiple plane
 
To look more ways than left and right,
 
And weeping walks its father's house
 
Like something homeless in the night:
 
For now less largely let abroad,
 
Though but the world they say is mine,
 
I shiver as I take the road.
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