THOUGHTS
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If in a giant brain The thoughts of the world could lie, How darkly would each cell be lit, What phantoms pale would people it, Flocking, flocking by: Thoughts of things that jerk or leap, Things that flit in the sky or creep In the atomy dust, or swarm in the deep, Leviathan or fly! Fugitive, feeble, vain— The giant would fall asleep, And they in millions would be gone For ever to oblivion, Far down deep: Thought of toad and thought of lark, Crab and crocodile and shark, Armadillo, aard-vark, Terrapin and sheep.