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Spirit . Mortal , thou lookest too narrowly into hdaxtf For thine own welfare . There b nothing perfoct * And it is wiser to seek fair externals * - ¦ ; , And shut thine eyes against doforwaky . ' - ' Stranger . I will not Wed -thy counsel . I have fiucked The tree of knowledge , and I will believe The true way to shun misery is U > make That knowledge perfect . Sr $ fUT % Leokagfciin .
STRANasa . Another form appears upon the disk , With less aerial brightness than the last : She wears an anxious look upon her fac * , Her arms are meekly crossed upon he * breast , Her soft eye * -are imploring , and her spirt * ' Breathes absolute devotion . Self seems dead .
Save as a sharer of another s fortune ; And sense is but a handmaid to her purpose Of building her heart ' s bower within the shelter Of a strong refuge , which may bar the world From rudely breaking in upon her rest . Her aspect asks protection , and its guerdon Will be devoted love from one who neter
Listened to lover 8 voice . All fondly clingitig , With arms , and heart , and lips , and weeping eyes , She is a creature man might dote upon , And lore all other thought . Spirit . Is she , then , thy choioe ? Stranger . Sbe is a being to protect , but not To fill the heart of sympathy . She cannot
Rise with high thought * , and meet high intellect With an expanding mipd . She cannot thrill With high exalted ( Courage to achieve A noble object in impending peril ; She can but list ** wiute her idol speaks .
And fear , me * stgh t and trembkt , and dissuade , ] And foretell evil in ufioertaioty , And baffle the high pwposes of Q « e Around whose stem , all' ivy-like » the cti&gft , And checkt Jbk vigour '* growth . ? weftteof wiod A puling , tender , end « ap « rpoeed life ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 658, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/30/
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