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More than ^ p ^ atcb oo ^ U eiUred gths *;¦ < What wonder if I sa ^ , ^ way ) f ^ un Despair ? , for power » eeaV < l shut from man for . $ v $ r . ? In this conjuncture , as I pxay'd to die . . , , ,. , : A strange advejatuje made me know Ou , e Sia > Had spotted my career from its uprise ; .
And as the poor melodious wretch disburden'd His heart , and moan'd his weakness in my ear , I leani'd my own deep error ; Jove's undoing , Taught me the worth of love in man ' s estate , And what proportion love should hold with power In his right constitution : love preceding Power—with much power always much more love ; Love still too straiten'd in its present means , And earnest for new power to set it free * I learn'd this , and supposed the whole was learnM : And thus , when men received with stupid wonder My first revealings—would have worshipp ed
me—And I despised and loathed their proffer'd |> rais 3 ; When , with awaken'd eyes , they took revenge For past credulity , in casting shame On my real knowledge—and I hated them —• It wa $ not strange J saw no good in mail , To overbalance all the wear and waste
Of faculties , display'd in vain , b ^ ut born To prosper in some better sphere : and wiry ' ? In my own heart love had not been made wise To trace love ' s faint beginnings in mankind—To know even hate is but a mask of loVe ' To see a good in evil , and a hope In ill-success . To sympathize—be proud Of their half-reasons , faint aspirings , struggles Dimly for truth—their poorest fallacies , And prejudice , and fears , and cares , and doubts ; All with a touch of nobleness , for all
Their error ; all ambitious , upward tending , Like plants in mines which never saw the sun , But dream of him , and guess where he may be , And do their beat to climb and get to him : All this I knew not , and I fail'd ; let men Regard me , and the poet dead long * ago Who loved too rashly ; and shape forth a third , And better temper'd spirit , warn d by both ; As ftom the over-radiant star too mad
To drink tfae light-springs , beam less thence itself—And the dark orb which borders the abyss , Ingulf'd in icy night—might have its course A tempcftife atxj equidistant world : Meanwhile , I h * Te done well , though not all well . As yet inter ciatttoat < fo without contempt—Tit foHrtWr gtfod , find therefore fit awlii ^ TMII ^^^^^ i . p ^ k Korp ofme ; '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 724, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/32/
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