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VOTIVE TABLETS: GENIUS by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

First Line: INTELLECT CAN REPEAT WHAT'S BEEN FULFILL'D
Last Line: IN NATURE'S KINGDOM NATURE TO ENLARGE!
Subject(s): GENIUS; NATURE;

INTELLECT can repeat what's been fulfill'd,
And, aping Nature, as she buildeth — build;
O'er Nature's base can haughty Reason dare
To pile its lofty castle — in the air.
But only thine, O Genius, is the charge,
In Nature's kingdom Nature to enlarge!



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