Book 2 — APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA[345:1]
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APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA[345:1]
The poet in his lone yet genial hour Gives to his eyes a magnifying power: Or rather he emancipates his eyes From the black shapeless accidents of size— In unctuous cones of kindling coal, 5 Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe's trim hole, His gifted ken can see Phantoms of sublimity.
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Title] The Poet's ken P. W., 1885: Apologia, &c. 1907.
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The poet's eye in his tipsy hour Hath a magnifying power Or rather emancipates his eyes Of the accidents of size
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cones] cone MS.
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Or smoke from his pipe's bole MS.
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His eye can see MS.