CONSOLATION: A LYRIC POEM.
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"Lo! from these walls the current glides;
"Now rolls through Greece its swelling tides;
"Views parched nations bending o'er the brink,
"And kindling life glow brighter as they drink.
"Now rolls through Greece its swelling tides;
"Views parched nations bending o'er the brink,
"And kindling life glow brighter as they drink.
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"As travellers lost in midnight snows
"When mortals roam'd, no succour nigh;
"Thou bad'st Philosophy disclose
"Her radiance to the mental eye:
"Not burst in floods of cloudless light[1],
"With dazzling glare to scorch the sight;
"But, veil'd in haze, with mitigated power
"Shed the mild glimmerings of the twilight hour.
"As travellers lost in midnight snows
"When mortals roam'd, no succour nigh;
"Thou bad'st Philosophy disclose
"Her radiance to the mental eye:
"Not burst in floods of cloudless light[1],
"With dazzling glare to scorch the sight;
"But, veil'd in haze, with mitigated power
"Shed the mild glimmerings of the twilight hour.
- ↑ In allusion to the characteristical principle of the Pyrrhonic school, which was, to consider every thing as a matter of doubt and uncertainty.
