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Ericka Hansen (u35...@elm.circa.ufl.edu) wrote:
> In article <199...@bored.of.juv.rhyms>, Eri...@bored.of.casc 
> writes:

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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing;
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> And drinking largely sobers us again.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Fir'd at first Sight with what the Muse imparts,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> In fearless Youth we tempt the Heights of Arts,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> While from the bounded Level of our Mind,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Short Views we take, nor see the Lengths behind,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> But more advan'd, behold with strange Surprize
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> So, pleased at first, the towring Alps we try,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mount o'er the Vales, and seem to tread the Sky;
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Th' Eternal Snows appear already past,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> And the first Clouds and Mountains seem the last:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> But those attain'd, we tremble to survey
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The growing Labours of the lengthen'd Way,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Th' increasing Prospect tires our wandring Eyes,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hills peep o'er Hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
>>>>>>>>>>>> A perfect Judge will read each Work of Wit
>>>>>>>>>>> With the same Spirit that its Author writ,
>>>>>>>>>> Survey the Whole, nor seek slight Faults to find,
>>>>>>>>> Where Nature moves, and Rapture warms the Mind;
>>>>>>>> Nor lose, for that malignant dull Delight,
>>>>>>> The gen'rous Pleasure to be charm'd with Wit.
>>>>>> But in such Lays as neither ebb, nor flow,
>>>>> Correctly cold, and regularly low,
>>>> That shunning Faults, one quiet Tenour keep;
>>> We cannot blame indeed--but we may sleep.
>> In Wit, as Nature, what affects our Hearts
> Is not th' Exactness of peculiar Parts;
>> 'Tis not a Lip, or Eye, we Beauty call,
>>> But the joint Force and full Result of all.
>>>> Thus when we view some well-proportion'd Dome,
>>>>> (The World's just wonder, and ev'n thine O Rome!)
>>>>>> No single Parts unequally surprize;
>>>>>>> All comes united to th' admiring Eyes;

                                          -Ericka Hansen-


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