<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118419" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Uranus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When on the primal peaceful blank profound,<br>Which in its still unknowing silence holds<br>All knowledge, ever by withholding holds,<br>When on that void (like footfalls in far rooms),<br>In faint pulsations from the whitening East<br>Articulate voices first were felt to stir,<br>And the great child, in dreaming grown to man,<br>Losing his dream to piece it up began;<br>Then Plato in me said,<br>‘’Tis but the figured ceiling overhead,<br>With cunning diagrams bestarred, that shine<br>In all the three dimensions, are endowed<br>With motion too by skill mechanical,<br>That thou in height, and depth, and breadth, and power.<br>Schooled unto pure Mathesis, might proceed<br>To higher entities, whereof in us<br>Copies are seen, existent they themselves<br>In the sole kingdom of the Mind and God.<br>Mind not the stars, mind thou thy Mind and God.’<br>By that supremer Word<br>O’ermastered, deafly heard<br>Were hauntings dim of old astrologies;<br>Chaldean mumblings vast, with gossip light<br>From modern ologistic fancyings mixed,<br>Of suns and stars, by hypothetic men<br>Of other frame than ours inhabited,<br>Of lunar seas and lunar craters huge.<br>And was there atmosphere, or was there not?<br>And without oxygen could life subsist?<br>And was the world originally mist?<br>Talk they as talk they list,<br>I, in that ampler voice,<br>Unheeding, did rejoice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Hugh+Clough">Arthur Hugh Clough</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118419" data-title="Uranus de Arthur Hugh Clough" data-description="When on the primal peaceful blank profound,/Which in its still unknowing silence holds/All knowledge, ever by withholding holds,/When on that void (like footfalls in far rooms),/In faint pulsations from the whitening East/Articulate voices first w..."></div> </div> </div>

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