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One day Ambition, in his endless round, / All filled with vague and nameless longings, found / Slow wasting Genius, who from spot to spot / Went idly grazing, through the Realms of Thought.
Ambition cried, 'Come, wander forth with me; / I like thy face -- but cannot stay with thee. ' / 'I will,' said Genius, 'for I needs must own / I'm getting dull by being much alone.'