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[From the Prophecy of Dante.]

GENIUS.

MANY are poets who have never penned

Their inspiration, and perchance, the best;

They felt, and loved and died, but would not lend

Their thoughts to meaner beings; they compressed

The God within them, and rejoined the stars

Unlaurelled upon earth, but far more blessed

Than those who are degraded by the jars

Of passion, and their frailties linked to fame,

Conquerors of high renown, but full of scars.

Many are poets, but without the

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One noble stroke with a whole life It is that settled, ceaseless gloom

may glow,

Or deify the canvas till it shine With beauty so surpassing all below,

That they who kneel to idols so divine

Break no commandment, for high heaven is there

Transfused, transfigurated and the line

Of poesy which peoples but the air With thought and beings of our thought reflected,

Can do no more: then let the artist share

The palm; he shares the peril, and dejected

Faints o'er the labor unapproved -Alas!

Despair and genius are too oft connected.

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The fabled Hebrew wanderer bore; That will not look beyond the tomb, And cannot hope for rest before.

What exile from himself can flee?
To zones, though more and more
remote.

Still, still pursues, where'er I be,
The blight of life-the demon
Thought.

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Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou That I with stern delights should e'er

rollest now.

have been so moved.

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