"I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee."

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Stanza 113. Compare: "Good bye, proud world; I'm going home. Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine", Ralph Waldo Emerson, Good Bye, proud World; " I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me", Samuel Johnson, Life of Johnson (Boswell), 77 Volume viii, Chapter v (1783).