“And Katerfelto, with his hair on end
At his own wonders, wondering for his bread.
'T is pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat,
To peep at such a world,—to see the stir
Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd.”

—  William Cowper, The Task

Source: The Task (1785), Book IV, The Winter Evening, Line 86.

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