Stones from The Quarry or, Moods of Mind. By Henry Browne [i.e. Henry Ellison] |
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NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN. |
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NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.
How many minds have with the self-same thought,In divers ages, distant regions, gone
In labour; brain-throes many, the child one!
Jove-births, Minerva-like! brain-issue, wrought
In Jove-like brains, with self-conception fraught!
Yet “damnable iteration” sees the sun,
With pre-gestation, pre-delivery; none
Sole-self. Empedocles “Selection” taught.
Truths by Cæsarean operations too
Th' accoucheur Time saves from the dead Past's womb!
Second gestations, after-births, deemed new;
Th' old fœtus dormant there as in a tomb!
Empedocles his child re-born might view,
And both as father and god-father come!
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