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Poetical Works of Robert Bridges excluding the eight dramas

Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930)

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Prometheus the Firegiver
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PROMETHEUS THE FIREGIVER
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[FIRST PART]
  
ODE.
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SECOND PART
  
ODE.
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DEMETER
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DEMETER
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ACT I
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ACT II
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ACT III
  
ODE.
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Eros & Psyche
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[In midmost length of hundred-citied Crete]
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FIRST QUARTER
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SECOND QUARTER
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THIRD QUARTER
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FOURTH QUARTER
  
THE GROWTH OF LOVE
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Shorter Poems
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BOOK I
  
[dedication]
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1 ELEGY
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2 ELEGY
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4 THE CLIFF-TOP
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14 ELEGY
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15 RONDEAU
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16 TRIOLET
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17 TRIOLET
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BOOK II
  
[dedication]
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2 PASSER-BY
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3 LATE SPRING EVENING
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4 WOOING
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6 A WATER-PARTY
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7 THE DOWNS
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8 SPRING
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9 SPRING
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10 ELEGY
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11 DEJECTION
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12 MORNING HYMN
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BOOK III
  
[dedication]
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2 LONDON SNOW
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3 THE VOICE OF NATURE
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4 ON A DEAD CHILD
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5 THE PHILOSOPHER TO HIS MISTRESS
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7 INDOLENCE
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16 SONG
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BOOK IV
  
[dedication]
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5 LAST WEEK OF FEBRUARY, 1890
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6 APRIL, 1885
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13 THE WINDMILL
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19 ANNIVERSARY
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30 LAUS DEO
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BOOK V
  
[dedication]
 1. 
1 THE WINNOWERS
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2 THE AFFLICTION OF RICHARD
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4 THE GARDEN IN SEPTEMBER
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6 LARKS
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7 THE PALM WILLOW
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8 ASIAN BIRDS
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9 JANUARY
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10 A ROBIN
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12 NIGHTINGALES
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14 FOUNDER'S DAY. A SECULAR ODE ON THE NINTH JUBILEE OF ETON COLLEGE
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16 NORTH WIND IN OCTOBER
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17 FIRST SPRING MORNING
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18 A VILLAGER
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New Poems
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ECLOGUE I THE MONTHS
  
BASIL AND EDWARD
  
JANUARY
  
FEBRUARY
  
MARCH
  
APRIL
  
MAY
  
JUNE
  
JULY
  
AUGUST
  
SEPTEMBER
  
OCTOBER
  
NOVEMBER
  
DECEMBER
  
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ECLOGUE II GIOVANNI DUPRÈ
  
LAWRENCE AND RICHARD
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ECLOGUE III FOURTH OF JUNE AT ETON
  
RICHARD AND GODFREY
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4 ELEGY
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6 THE SOUTH WIND
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10 SEPTUAGESIMA
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13 PATER FILIO
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14 NOVEMBER
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15 WINTER NIGHTFALL
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18 WISHES
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19 A LOVE LYRIC
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20 ΕΡΩΣ
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21 THE FAIR BRASS
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22 THE DUTEOUS HEART
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23 THE IDLE FLOWERS
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24 DUNSTONE HILL
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25 SCREAMING TARN
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26 THE ISLE OF ACHILLES
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27 AN ANNIVERSARY
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28 REGINA CARA
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Later Poems
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1 RECOLLECTIONS OF SOLITUDE
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2 A VIGNETTE
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3 MILLICENT
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4 VIVAMUS
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7 MELANCHOLIA
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8 TO THE PRESIDENT OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD
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9 TO JOSEPH JOACHIM
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10 TO THOS. FLOYD
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11 LA GLOIRE DE VOLTAIRE
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12 TO ROBERT BURNS
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13 THE PORTRAIT OF A GRANDFATHER
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14 AN INVITATION TO THE OXFORD PAGEANT, JULY 1907
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15 ODE TO MUSIC
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IV
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16 A HYMN OF NATURE
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Poems in Classical Prosody
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1 EPISTLE I TO L. M. WINTRY DELIGHTS
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2 EPISTLE II TO A SOCIALIST IN LONDON
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3 EVENING
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4 POVRE AME AMOUREUSE
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5 THE FOURTH DIMENSION
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6 JOHANNES MILTON, Senex
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7 PYTHAGORAS
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Elegiacs
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8 AMIEL
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10 WALKING HOME
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11 THE RUIN
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12 REVENANTS
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14 ANNIVERSARY
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15 COMMUNION OF SAINTS
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EPITAPHS
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20 IBANT OBSCURI
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21 PRIAM & ACHILLES
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October & OTHER POEMS
  
[dedication]
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1 OCTOBER
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2 THE FLOWERING TREE
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3 NOEL: CHRISTMAS EVE, 1913
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4 IN DER FREMDE
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5 THE PHILOSOPHER AND HIS MISTRESS
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6 NARCISSUS
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7 OUR LADY
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8 THE CURFEW TOWER
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9 FLYCATCHERS
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10 GHOSTS
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11 Ετωσιον αχθος αρουρης
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12 HELL AND HATE
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13 ODE ON THE TERCENTENARY COMMEMORATION OF SHAKESPEARE
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14 THE CHIVALRY OF THE SEA
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15 FOR ‘PAGES INÉDITES’, ETC.
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16 GHELUVELT
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17 THE WEST FRONT
  
18 TRAFALGAR SQUARE
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19 CHRISTMAS EVE, 1917
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20 THE EXCELLENT WAY
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21 ENGLAND TO INDIA
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22 BRITANNIA VICTRIX
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23 POOR CHILD
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24 TO PERCY BUCK
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25 TO HARRY ELLIS WOOLDRIDGE
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26 FORTUNATUS NIMIUM
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27 DEMOCRITUS
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PART ONE NEO-MILTONIC SYLLABICS
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1 CHEDDAR PINKS
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2 POOR POLL
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3 THE TAPESTRY
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4 KATE'S MOTHER
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5 THE COLLEGE GARDEN
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6 THE PSALM
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7 COME SE QUANDO
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PART TWO ACCENTUAL MEASURES
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8 TO FRANCIS JAMMES
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9 MELANCHOLY
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PART THREE OLD STYLES
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10 BUCH DER LIEDER
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11 EMILY BRONTË
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12 THE TRAMPS
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13 THE GREAT ELM
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14 THE SLEEPING MANSION
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15 VISION
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16 LOW BAROMETER
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17 A DREAM
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18 TO HIS EXCELLENCY
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19 Spoken by Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson at the opening of the Theatre of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, May 27, 1921.
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20 HODGE
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22 SIMPKIN
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PART FOUR STONE'S QUANTITIVE PROSODY
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23 TO CATULLUS
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24 TO SIR THOS. BARLOW, P.R.C.P.
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25 ΠΟΙΚΙΛΟΘΡΟΝ'
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1 VERSES WRITTEN FOR MRS. DANIEL
  
TO EMILY DANIEL
  
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2 THE WIDOW

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This for me wer' enough: yet confin'd Geology's field
Counts not in all Science more than the planet to the Cosmos;
Where our central Sun, almighty material author,
And sustainer, appears as a half-consumed vanishing spark,
Bearing along with it, entangled in immensity's onward
Spiral eddies, the blacken'd dust-motes whirl'd off from around it.
But tho' man's microscopical functions measure all things
By his small footprints, finger-spans and ticking of clocks,
And thereby conceive the immense—such multiple extent
As to defy Ideas of imperative cerebration,—
None the less observing, measuring, patiently recording,
He mappeth out the utter wilderness of unlimited space;
Carefully weigheth a weight to the sun, reckoneth for it its path
Of trackless travelling, the precise momentary places
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Of the planets and their satellites, their annual orbits,
Times, perturbations of times, and orbit of orbit.
What was Alexander's subduing of Asia, or that
Sheep-worry of Europe, when pigmy Napoleon enter'd
Her sovereign chambers, and her kings with terror eclips'd?
His footsore soldiers inciting across the ravag'd plains,
Thro' bloody fields of death tramping to an ugly disaster?
Shows any crown, set above the promise (so rudely accomplisht)
Of their fair godlike young faces, a glory to compare
With the immortal olive that circles bold Galileo's
Brows, the laurel'd halo of Newton's unwithering fame?
Or what a child's surmise, how trifling a journey Columbus
Adventur'd, to a land like that which he sail'd from arriving,
If compar'd to Bessel's magic divination, awarding
Magnificent Sirius his dark and invisible bride;
Or when Adams by Cam, (more nearly Leverrier in France,)
From the minutely measur'd vacillation of Uranus, augur'd
Where his mighty brother Neptune went wandering unnamed,
And thro' those thousand-million league-darknesses of space
Drew him slowly whene'er he pass'd, and slowly released him!
Nil admirari! 'Tis surely a most shabby thinker
Who, looking on Nature, finds not the reflection appalling.
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