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THE PROSPECT.
O wondrous delight of a window
A fair three stories high,
With its view to the southward and west,
And its limitless boon of sky!

With its murmur and coo of pigeons,
Settling upon the roof—
And a distant stir that betokens
A world that is well aloof!