Good-bye My Fancy
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In its highest aspect, and striking its grandest average, essential
Poetry expresses and goes along with essential Religion--has been
and is more the adjunct and more serviceable to that true religion
(for of course there is a false one, and plenty of it,) than all
the priests and creeds and churches that now exist or have ever
existed--Even while the temporary prevalent theory and practice
of poetry is merely one side and ornamental and dainty--a love
sign a bit of jewelry, a feudal conceit, an ingenious tale or intellectual
finesse, adjusted to the low taste and calibre that will always
sufficiently generally prevail. . .
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