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Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart, / Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise, / Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering / To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies / Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood / To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, / The Elfin from the green grass, and from me / The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?