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ANTAGONISMS
1
Ah, who can reconcile the Brain and Heart?Reason and Passion? Thought and Sentiment?
Genius and Woman? Far they tend apart.
And only meet in terrible dissent.
2
Genius, sufficing to itself, aboundsIn its own being. Love can but fulfil
Its being in another. Woman founds
Her power upon the ruins of Man's will.
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3
The love she gives him costs a kingdom's price,Tho' freely given the gift. It takes away
His grandeur from him. And that sacrifice
She neither understands, nor can repay.
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