Sonnet XXIX. Subject Continued.
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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