<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529197" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Rarity of Genius</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">While yet my lip was breathing youth's first breath, <br>I all too young to know their deepest spell, <br>I saw Medea and Phædra in Rachel; <br>Later I saw the great Elizabeth. <br>Rachel, Ristori -- we shall speak with death <br>Ere we meet souls like these. In one age dwell <br>Not many such: a century shall tell <br>Its hundred beads before it braid a wreath <br>For two so queenly foreheads. If it take <br>Æons to form a diamond, grain on grain, <br>Æons to crystallize its fire and dew, <br>By what slow processes must Nature make <br>Her Shakespeares and her Raffaels? Great the gain <br>If she spoil millions making one or two.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Bailey+Aldrich">Thomas Bailey Aldrich</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=529197" data-title="The Rarity of Genius de Thomas Bailey Aldrich" data-description="While yet my lip was breathing youth's first breath, I all too young to know their deepest spell, I saw Medea and Phædra in Rachel; Later I saw the great Elizabeth. Rachel, Ristori -- we shall speak with death Ere we meet souls like these. I..."></div> </div> </div>

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