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For What Is Foreign

For what is foreign thanks; what English praise
Whoever thinks may speak. For that we prize
Is farfetched, points its source out of this world.
So water taps have ushered tears that welled
In Tartar pupils, black unheard-of joys;
And Indian mines and skies the eyes of jays,
Their flash-fanned pinions. Pheasants crouch in
      bracken
Jungles, and icebergs roar into the broken
Milk-bottle mews. ....

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