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This wonder lasted nine daies.
This wonder lasted nine daies.
 Wonders I sing; the sun has set; no night has followed.
 [Lat., Mira cano; sol occubuit;
  Nox read more 
 Wonders I sing; the sun has set; no night has followed.
 [Lat., Mira cano; sol occubuit;
  Nox nulla secuta est.] 
 We nothing know, but what is marvellous;
 Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.  
 We nothing know, but what is marvellous;
 Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe. 
 There's something in a flying horse,
 There's something in a huge balloon.  
 There's something in a flying horse,
 There's something in a huge balloon. 
 Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a 
philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy read more 
 Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a 
philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than 
this. 
 Pretty! in amber to observe the forms
 Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!
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 Pretty! in amber to observe the forms
 Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!
  The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,
   But wonder how the devil they got there. 
 "Never see . . . a dead post-boy, did you?" inquired 
Sam. . . . "No," rejoined Bob, "I read more 
 "Never see . . . a dead post-boy, did you?" inquired 
Sam. . . . "No," rejoined Bob, "I never did." "No!" rejoined Sam 
triumphantly. "Nor never vill; and there's another thing that no 
man never see, and that's a dead donkey." 
 If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to 
himself . . . that a tiger is an optical read more 
 If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to 
himself . . . that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will 
find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the 
discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive. 
 It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood.
 Stones have been known to move and trees to read more 
 It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood.
 Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;
  Augures and understood relations have
   By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth
    The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?