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made available by great and immortal bards,
who had a clear and sagacious eye for the
discovery of truth. But let us remember that when
Thespis spoke from his car, the world had also
wise men. Homer had sung his immortal
songs, and yet a new form of genius appeared,
to which a Sophocles and Aristophanes gave
birth; the Sagas and mythology of the
North were as an unknown treasure to the
stage, until Oehlenschläger showed what
mighty forms from thence might be made to
glide past us.
It is not our intention that the poet shall
versify scientific discoveries. The didactic poem
is and will be, in its best form, always but a
piece of mechanism, or wooden figure, which
has not the true life. The sunlight of science
must penetrate the poet; he must perceive
truth and harmony in the minute and in the
immensely great with a clear eye: it must
purify and enrich the understanding and
imagination, and show him new forms which
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