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Well, and if so succeed hand-practice on awry Preposterous art-mistake, shall soul-proficiency Despair,--when exercised on nature, which at worst Always implies success,--however crossed and curst By failure,--such as art would emulate in vain? Shall any soul despair of setting free again Trait after trait, until the type as wholly start Forth, visible to sense, as that minutest part, (Whate'er the chance,) which first arresting eye, warned soul That, under wrong enough and ravage, lay the whole O' the loveliness it "loved"--I take the accepted phrase?