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Sonnet—To Science | Poems by Edgar Allan Poe · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: Science, true daughter of old time, Thou art, who alterest
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Speaker 1: all things with thy peering eyes. Why prayest thou thus
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Speaker 1: upon the poet's heart, fulterer, whose wings are dull realities?
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Speaker 1: How should he love thee? Or how deem thee wise?
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Speaker 1: Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering to seek
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Speaker 1: her treasure in the jeweled skies? Albeit he soared with
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Speaker 1: an undaunted wing. Hast thou not dragged Diana from her
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Speaker 1: car and driven the Hamadryad from the wood to seek
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Speaker 1: a shelter in some happier star. Hast thou not torn
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Speaker 1: the Naiad from her flood, the Elfin from the green grass,
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Speaker 1: and from me The summer dreamed beneath the tamarind tree,