18.12.2012, 13:49
La sagesse is oft evidenced by those
Who condemn an inaptitude for what
Nature herself withheld — requisite thought,
Unknowing th' opposite oft brightly glows ;
Reminding of him fine history paints
Disregarded as feebly unpossess'd
Of enlightening, which the mental breast
Gifts with a panacea for life's complaints,
Who, as Archimides' /oKouxr, proved
An excelling competency ; — the steed,
That late on fair Thessalian plains had roved
Would, unacknowledged have lost his meed,
Liberty unattain'd, if absent one
Estimating th' eagle vision could brook the sun.
Who condemn an inaptitude for what
Nature herself withheld — requisite thought,
Unknowing th' opposite oft brightly glows ;
Reminding of him fine history paints
Disregarded as feebly unpossess'd
Of enlightening, which the mental breast
Gifts with a panacea for life's complaints,
Who, as Archimides' /oKouxr, proved
An excelling competency ; — the steed,
That late on fair Thessalian plains had roved
Would, unacknowledged have lost his meed,
Liberty unattain'd, if absent one
Estimating th' eagle vision could brook the sun.