Originality
Once, as I pondered o'er strange books and sought.
From secrets of the past some knowledge new,
Within my laboring mind there sudden grew
The perfect germ of a stupendous thought!
No bizarre brain as yet had ever wrought
This odd, weird wonder into shape, and few
Could from the store of fancy bring to view
A whim to equal this, to me untaught!
I hailed its brilliant advent with delight.
But, as I dreamed, I heard a sad voice say:
" I, who am living in a spirit home,
With the same thought that pleasures thee to-night
Charmed grim Tiberius on a festal day,
And made tumultuous laughter roar through Rome! "
From secrets of the past some knowledge new,
Within my laboring mind there sudden grew
The perfect germ of a stupendous thought!
No bizarre brain as yet had ever wrought
This odd, weird wonder into shape, and few
Could from the store of fancy bring to view
A whim to equal this, to me untaught!
I hailed its brilliant advent with delight.
But, as I dreamed, I heard a sad voice say:
" I, who am living in a spirit home,
With the same thought that pleasures thee to-night
Charmed grim Tiberius on a festal day,
And made tumultuous laughter roar through Rome! "
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