. The pioneer : a literary and critical magazine . together. The soul mounts higher andhigher, and its horizon widens from age to also grows wiser as she grows can never be all written. There ismore in the heart of man than any the has ever seen there, — more in the soulthan any has ever guessed. Our age mayhave no great poets, for there are some whohave but just now gone forth into the silence,some who vet linger on the doubtful brink, andthere are successions in poesy as in nature ;pines spring up where oaks are cut down.—the lyrical follows the epic. But of whateve
. The pioneer : a literary and critical magazine . together. The soul mounts higher andhigher, and its horizon widens from age to also grows wiser as she grows can never be all written. There ismore in the heart of man than any the has ever seen there, — more in the soulthan any has ever guessed. Our age mayhave no great poets, for there are some whohave but just now gone forth into the silence,some who vet linger on the doubtful brink, andthere are successions in poesy as in nature ;pines spring up where oaks are cut down.—the lyrical follows the epic. But of whateverkind or degree, there will ever yet be somepoets. They are needed as historians of won-derful facts which, but for them, would beunrecorded, — facts high above the grasp ofthe diligent recorders of outward events ; andmaterials of history will never be wanting tothem, since there is nothing so beautiful buthas in it the promise o{ a higher beauty, no-thing so true but enfolds the elements of a widerand more universal truth. 40 THE
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