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First Line: Exalted mind! Whose character doth bear
Last Line: Thyself to us, thou shouldst be still a wonder?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


EXALTED mind! whose character doth bear
The first idea of perfection, whence
Adam's came, and stands so, how canst appear
In words, that only tell what here-
Tofore hath been? Thou need'st as deep a sense
As prophecy, since there's no difference
In telling what thou art and what shall be.
Then pardon me that rapture do profess
At thy outside, that want for what I see
Description, if here amaz'd I cease
Thus---
Yet grant one question, and no more, crav'd under
Thy gracious leave: How, if thou wouldst express
Thyself to us, thou shouldst be still a wonder?





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