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What is the meaning of the word 'sublime', - ZaunköniG - 01.03.2008 What is the meaning of the word 'sublime', Utter'd full oft, and never yet explain'd? It is a truth that cannot be contain'd? In formal bounds of thought, in prose, or rhyme. 'Tis the Eternal struggling out of Time. It is the man a birth-mark of his kind That proves him kindred with immaculate mind, The son of him that in the stainless prime Was God's own image. Whatsoe'er creates At once abasement, and a sense of glory, Whate'er of sight, sound, feeling, fact, or story, Exalts the man, and yet the self rebates, That is the true sublime, which can confess In weakness strength, the great in littleness. |