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VIII.
“What need of symbolizing? Fitlier men
Would take on tongue mere facts—few, faint and far,
Still facts not fancies: quite enough they are,
That Power, that Knowledge, and that Will,—add then
Immensity, Eternity: these jar
Nowise with our permitted thought and speech.
Why human attributes?”
Would take on tongue mere facts—few, faint and far,
Still facts not fancies: quite enough they are,
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Immensity, Eternity: these jar
Nowise with our permitted thought and speech.
Why human attributes?”
A myth may teach:
Only, who better would expound it thus
Must be Euripides not Æschylus.
Only, who better would expound it thus
Must be Euripides not Æschylus.
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