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forth! – wonders, greater than the poet’s
philosophy can create! A bard will come, who,
with a child’s mind, like a new Aladdin, will
enter into the cavern of science, – with a child’s
mind, we say, or else the puissant spirits of natural
strength would seize him, and make him their
servant; whilst he, with the lamp of poetry,
which is, and always will be, the human heart,
stands as a ruler, and brings forth wonderful
fruits from the gloomy passages, and has
strength to build poetry’s new palace, created in
one night by attendant spirits.
In the world itself events repeat themselves;
the human character was and will be the same
during long ages and all ages; and as they were
in the old writings, they must be in the new.
But science always unfolds something new; light
and truth are everything that is created – beam
out from hence with eternally divine clearness.
Mighty image of God, do thou illumine and
enlighten mankind; and when its intellectual
eye is accustomed to the lustre, the new
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