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First Line: O thought! O memory! Gems for ever heaping
Last Line: Ere it can hold your gifts inalienably fast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Reason; Sickness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Illness


O THOUGHT! O Memory! gems for ever heaping
High in the illumined chambers of the mind --
And thou, divine Imagination! keeping
Thy lamp's lone star 'mid shadowy hosts enshrined;
How in one moment rent and disentwined,
At Fever's fiery touch, apart they fall,
Your glorious combinations! broken all,
As the sand-pillars by the desert's wind
Scattered to whirling dust! Oh, soon uncrowned!
Well may your parting swift, your strange return,
Subdue the soul to lowliness profound,
Guiding its chastened vision to discern
How by meek Faith heaven's portals must be passed.
Ere it can hold your gifts inalienably fast.





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