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I tell you we are fooled by the eye, the ear,
These organs muffle us from that real world
That lies about us, we are duped by brightness.
The ear, the eye doth make us deaf and blind;
Else should we be aware of all our dead,
Who pass above us, through us and beneath us.

— Stephen Phillips Herod (1901)

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