Excerpt from Poems, Original and Translations

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, Drink deep, or touch not the Pierian spring.

But whatever the in¿uence, age and scientific studies have not dimmed at last the passion for that literature which has cheered or soothed the race from the time of Homer and Sappho.

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