The Study of Poetry • Paragraph 670
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This poem is INFORMED throughout with the poet’s iterated doctrine in regard to earth life,--to the relativity of that life. The grammarian, in his hunger and thirst after knowledge and truth, thought not of time. “What’s time? Leave Now for dogs and apes! Man has Forever.” “Oh, if we draw a circle premature, heedless of far gain, greedy for quick returns of profit, sure bad is our bargain!”