Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll…

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! ✨ Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table, p.98, Reprint Services Corporation
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