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THE MOLE-HILL.
Tell me, thou dust beneath my feet,
Thou dust that once hadst breath!
Tell me how many mortals meet
In this small hill of death?
Thou dust that once hadst breath!
Tell me how many mortals meet
In this small hill of death?
The Mole, that scoops with curious toil
Her subterranean bed,
Thinks not she ploughs a human soil,
And mines among the dead.
Her subterranean bed,
Thinks not she ploughs a human soil,
And mines among the dead.
But, O! where'er she turns the ground
My kindred earth I see;
Once every atom of this mound
Lived, breathed, and felt like me.
My kindred earth I see;
Once every atom of this mound
Lived, breathed, and felt like me.