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THE MIND'S LIBERTY, by                 Poet Analysis    
First Line: The mind, with its own eyes and ears
Last Line: With its dark nipple in a cloud.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Reason; Mind, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


The mind, with its own eyes and ears,
May for these others have no care;
No matter where this body is,
The mind is free to go elsewhere.
My mind can be a sailor, when
This body's still confined to land;
And turn these mortals into trees,
That walk in Fleet Street or the Strand.

So, when I'm passing Charing Cross,
Where porters work both night and day,
I ofttimes hear sweet Malpas Brook,
That flows thrice fifty miles away.
And when I'm passing near St. Paul's,
I see, beyond the dome and crowd,
Twm Barlum, that green pap in Gwent,
With its dark nipple in a cloud.





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