The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — volume 01: Earlier Poems (1830-1836)
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — volume 01: Earlier Poems (1830-1836)
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Thus Heaven, repeating its material plan, Arched over all the rainbow mind of man;But he who, blind to universal laws, Sees but effects, unconscious of their cause, --Believes each image in itself is bright, Not robed in drapery of reflected light, --Is like the rustic who, amidst his toil, Has found some crystal in his meagre soil, And, lost in rapture, thinks for him aloneEarth worked her wonders on the sparkling stone, Nor dreams that Nature, with as nice a line, Carved countless angles thro...ugh the boundless mine.
Thus err the many, who, entranced to findUnwonted lustre in some clearer mind, Believe that Genius sets the laws at naughtWhich chain the pinions of our wildest thought;Untaught to measure, with the eye of art, The wandering fancy or the wayward heart;Who match the little only with the less, And gaze in rapture at its slight excess, Proud of a pebble, as the brightest gemWhose light might crown an emperor's diadem.
And, most of all, the pure ethereal fireWhich seems to radiate from the poet's lyreIs to the world a mystery and a charm, An AEgis wielded on a mortal's arm, While Reason turns her dazzled eye away, And bows her sceptre to her subject's sway;And thus the poet, clothed with godlike state, Usurped his Maker's title--to create;He, whose thoughts differing not in shape, but dress, What others feel more fitly can express, Sits like the maniac on his fancied throne, Peeps through the bars, and calls the world his own.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Thus Heaven, repeating its material plan, Arched over all the rainbow mind of man;But he who, blind to universal laws, Sees but effects, unconscious of their cause, --Believes each image in itself is bright, Not robed in drapery of reflected light, --Is like the rustic who, amidst his toil, Has found some crystal in his meagre soil, And, lost in rapture, thinks for him aloneEarth worked her wonders on the sparkling stone, Nor dreams that Nature, with as nice a line, Carved countless angles thro...ugh the boundless mine.
Thus err the many, who, entranced to findUnwonted lustre in some clearer mind, Believe that Genius sets the laws at naughtWhich chain the pinions of our wildest thought;Untaught to measure, with the eye of art, The wandering fancy or the wayward heart;Who match the little only with the less, And gaze in rapture at its slight excess, Proud of a pebble, as the brightest gemWhose light might crown an emperor's diadem.
And, most of all, the pure ethereal fireWhich seems to radiate from the poet's lyreIs to the world a mystery and a charm, An AEgis wielded on a mortal's arm, While Reason turns her dazzled eye away, And bows her sceptre to her subject's sway;And thus the poet, clothed with godlike state, Usurped his Maker's title--to create;He, whose thoughts differing not in shape, but dress, What others feel more fitly can express, Sits like the maniac on his fancied throne, Peeps through the bars, and calls the world his own.
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