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Whoe’er the number would define
Of sports and joys that shall be thine,
He first must count the grains of sand
That spread the Erythræan strand,
And every star and twinkling light
That stud the glistening arch of night.

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Leigh Hunt, in The Examiner (12 May 1816)

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