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THE AFFECTIONATE HEART by JOSEPH COTTLE

First Line: EVEN GENIUS MAY WEARY THE SIGHT
Last Line: IT SHALL LAST TILL THE WRECK OF THE MIND.
Subject(s): GENIUS; HEARTS; REASON; INTELLECT; RATIONALISM; BRAIN; MIND; INTELLECTUALS;

EVEN Genius may weary the sight
By too fierce and too constant a blaze;
But Affection, mild planet of night,
Grows lovelier the longer we gaze. ...

When Time, at the end of his race,
Shall expire with expiring mankind,
It shall stand on its permanent base,
It shall last till the wreck of the mind.



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