18.12.2012, 13:42
Difp'khnt belief from corresponding use !
A proof among how many ! will portray
The society of one we prize— choose
Than other : advantageously away,
Were no advantage, losing that, yet near
Is it valu'd rightly ? — conjecture could
Decide that a brief space would bring the flood
Consigning t' oblivion all that was here ;
Yet what th' effect ? — as if for aye 'twere cast
This is scann'd, nor vainly hoping by few,
But when the present swells the mighty past
The madness is beheld with reason's view,
Th' unalterable in unwonted hue Beheld,
long as perception — and how long ?— to last.
A proof among how many ! will portray
The society of one we prize— choose
Than other : advantageously away,
Were no advantage, losing that, yet near
Is it valu'd rightly ? — conjecture could
Decide that a brief space would bring the flood
Consigning t' oblivion all that was here ;
Yet what th' effect ? — as if for aye 'twere cast
This is scann'd, nor vainly hoping by few,
But when the present swells the mighty past
The madness is beheld with reason's view,
Th' unalterable in unwonted hue Beheld,
long as perception — and how long ?— to last.