From Aristotle To Wordsworth

Track them most as wanderers
Life's deep ponderers.
Who scales this rarefied air
Breathes in genius!

By what, in fowl, does impress
For soaring progress
Led on as twere. Inspired, more
Again, as if by
Their own breakthroughs, fiery-high.
Divine! Splenderous!
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July 11, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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