Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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OCCASIONS OF GREATNESS.
The great Soul needs no opportunitiesTo show its Greatness, it creates them: takes
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The Poesy of Life from them to rise
Pure as the Muse's fountain; that which lies
Before thee, 'tis therein that Wisdom wakes
The soul of Good oft dormant, 'till it breaks
Forth like the Flame whose unspent Energies
Lurk in the Embers, which the careless eye
Perceives not! thus by divine Sympathy
One Soul awakes another seemingdead.
Thine own Heart can impart a Value high
To things most mean, by thousand Channels spread
The noblest Blood of its best Artery!
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