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HERE all is sunny, and when the truant gull / Skims the green level of the lawn, his wing / Dispetals roses; here the house is framed / Of kneaded brick and the plumed mountain pine, / Such clay as artists fashion and such wood / As the tree-climbing urchin breaks. But there / Eternal granite hewn from the living isle / And dowelled with brute iron, rears a tower / That from its wet foundation to its crown / Of glittering glass, stands, in the sweep of winds, / Immovable, immortal, eminent.