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Copied from the Album of a Wholesale House in the City - ZaunköniG - 10.06.2007

Copied from the Album of a Wholesale House in the City

It is the precious province of true thought –
Of the divine creations of the mind –
To live unwearied in a heard overwrought
By busy intercourse with town – Mankind:

Poor merchant I! whom the dull world’s trade-wind
Blows ever onward on a steady sea,
Feel oftentimes, mid murkiest men, refined
By visitants that come alone to me.

Perchance I class not with the wordly wise;
But mine is not the spirit that avoids,
Mid temporal dealings, thease communions strange,

Albeit “disgracious to the city’s eyes,”
Often I meet rare Trinculo at Lloyd’s!
And Hamlet sweetly walks with me on ‘Change!