Are cradled into poetry by wrong;

They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

Shelley: Julian and Maddalo.


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SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT.  1605-1668.

The assembled souls of all that men held wise.

Gondibert. Book ii. Canto v. Stanza 37.

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy,

It is not safe to know.[217:1]