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IMAGINATION.
When Reason has built up on facts all clear
The highest truths its argument can teach,
Imagination steps into a sphere
That Reason cannot reach.
The highest truths its argument can teach,
Imagination steps into a sphere
That Reason cannot reach.
And there it plucks high thoughts out of the mist,
And round them throws its sunshine—thoughts that need
No further proof, but unto those that wist,
Are very truth indeed.
And round them throws its sunshine—thoughts that need
No further proof, but unto those that wist,
Are very truth indeed.
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And thus it is that passing through the clouds
Where Reason halts, it brings from far above
Those mysteries the present time avoids,
And after days approve.
Where Reason halts, it brings from far above
Those mysteries the present time avoids,
And after days approve.
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