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Sonnet XXIX. Subject Continued.

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If GENIUS has its danger, grief and pain,         That Common-Sense escapes, yet who wou'd change         The Powers, thro' Nature, and thro' Art that range,         To keep the bounded, tho' more safe domain      Of moderate Intellect, where all we gain         Is cold approvance? where the sweet, the strange,         Soft, and sublime, in vivid interchange,         Nor glad the spirit, nor enrich the brain.      Destructive shall we deem yon noon-tide blaze         If transiently the eye, o'er-power'd, resign         Distinct perception? - Shall we rather praise      The Moon's wan light? - with owlish choice incline         That Common-Sense her lunar lamp shou'd raise         Than that the solar fires of GENIUS shine?

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