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Created page with "A lot of learning is a dangerous thing; <br> Drink deep, and drown in waters of the Pierian spring:<br> Thy rare-disturb’d hypoxic waters suffocate the brain,<br> <noinclude>And no shafts of light can bring us round again.<br> Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts,<br> In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts;<br> While from the bounded level of our mind<br> Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind,<br> But, more advanced, behold with strange su..."
 
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Drink deep, and drown in waters of the Pierian spring:<br>
Drink deep, and drown in waters of the Pierian spring:<br>
Thy rare-disturb’d hypoxic waters suffocate the brain,<br>
Thy rare-disturb’d hypoxic waters suffocate the brain,<br>
<noinclude>And no shafts of light can bring us round again.<br>
Till no shafts of light can bring us round again.<br><noinclude>
Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts,<br>
Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts,<br>
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts;<br>
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts;<br>

Revision as of 09:25, 17 August 2024

A lot of learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, and drown in waters of the Pierian spring:
Thy rare-disturb’d hypoxic waters suffocate the brain,
Till no shafts of light can bring us round again.
Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts,
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts;
While from the bounded level of our mind
Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind,
But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise
New distant scenes of endless science rise!
So pleased at first the towering Alps we try,
Mount o’er the vales, and seem to tread the sky;
The eternal snows appear already past,
And the first clouds and mountains seem the last;
But those attained, we tremble to survey
The growing labours of the lengthened way;
The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes,
Hills peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!</noinclude?