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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537788" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Platonic 'Ideal' As It Was Understood By Aristotle. (Translated From Milton)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye sister Pow'rs who o'er the sacred groves<br>Preside, and, Thou, fair mother of them all<br>Mnemosyne, and thou, who in thy grot<br>Immense reclined at leisure, hast in charge<br>The Archives and the ord'nances of Jove,<br>And dost record the festivals of heav'n,<br>Eternity!--Inform us who is He,<br>That great Original by Nature chos'n<br>To be the Archetype of Human-kind,<br>Unchangeable, Immortal, with the poles<br>Themselves coaeval, One, yet ev'rywhere,<br>An image of the god, who gave him Being?<br>Twin-brother of the Goddess born from Jove,<br>He dwells not in his Father's mind, but, though<br>Of common nature with ourselves, exists<br>Apart, and occupies a local home.<br>Whether, companion of the stars, he spend<br>Eternal ages, roaming at his will<br>From sphere to sphere the tenfold heav'ns, or dwell<br>On the moon's side that nearest neighbours Earth,<br>Or torpid on the banks of Lethe sit<br>Among the multitude of souls ordair'd<br>To flesh and blood, or whether (as may chance)<br>That vast and giant model of our kind<br>In some far-distant region of this globe<br>Sequester'd stalk, with lifted head on high<br>O'ertow'ring Atlas, on whose shoulders rest<br>The stars, terrific even to the Gods.<br>Never the Theban Seer, whose blindness proved<br>His best illumination, Him beheld <br>In secret vision; never him the son<br>Of Pleione, amid the noiseless night<br>Descending, to the prophet-choir reveal'd;<br>Him never knew th' Assyrian priest, who yet<br>The ancestry of Ninus chronicles,<br>And Belus, and Osiris far-renown'd;<br>Nor even Thrice-great Hermes, although skill'd<br>So deep in myst'ry, to the worshippers<br>Of Isis show'd a prodigy like Him.<br>And thou, who hast immortalized the shades<br>Of Academus, if the school received<br>This monster of the Fancy first from Thee,<br>Either recall at once the banish'd bards<br>To thy Republic, or, thyself evinc'd<br>A wilder Fabulist, go also forth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</a><div class=q>
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Preside, and, Thou, fair mother of them all
Mnemosyne, and thou, who in thy grot
Immense reclined at leisure, hast in charge
The Archives and the ord'nances of Jove,
And dost record the festivals of heav..."></div>
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