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VASTNESS
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vi.Faith at her zenith, or all but lost in the gloom of doubts that darken the schools;Craft with a bunch of all-heal in her hand, follow’d up by her vassal legion of fools;
vii.Trade flying over a thousand seas with her spice and her vintage, her silk and her corn;Desolate offing, sailorless harbours, famishing populace, wharves forlorn;
viii.Star of the morning, Hope in the sunrise; gloom of the evening, Life at a close;Pleasure who flaunts on her wide down-way with her flying robe and her poison’d rose;
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