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Happy Birthday, Herman Melville

A Reasonable Constitution

What though Reason forged your scheme?
‘Twas Reason dreamed the Utopia’s dream:
‘Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.

— Herman Melville, from Selected Poems of Herman Melville (Anchor Books, 1964)

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