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 While fancy, like the finger of a clock,
 Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.  
 While fancy, like the finger of a clock,
 Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. 
The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
 She's all my fancy painted her,
 She's lovely, she's divine.  
 She's all my fancy painted her,
 She's lovely, she's divine. 
 We figure to ourselves
 The thing we like, and then we build it up
  As chance will read more 
 We figure to ourselves
 The thing we like, and then we build it up
  As chance will have it, on the rock or sand:
   For Thought is tired of wandering o'er the world,
    And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore. 
 Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep;
 If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!  
 Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep;
 If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! 
 Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,
 One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.  
 Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,
 One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. 
 Sad fancies do we then affect,
 In luxury of disrespect
  To our own prodigal excess
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 Sad fancies do we then affect,
 In luxury of disrespect
  To our own prodigal excess
   Of too familiar happiness. 
 Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains,
 Winning from Reason's hand the reins,
  Pity and woe! for read more 
 Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains,
 Winning from Reason's hand the reins,
  Pity and woe! for such a mind
   Is soft contemplative, and kind. 
 The difference is as great between
 The optics seeing as the objects seen.
  All manners take a read more 
 The difference is as great between
 The optics seeing as the objects seen.
  All manners take a tincture from our own;
   Or come discolor'd through out passions shown;
    Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies,
     Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.