<h2><i><SPAN name="SONNET_TO_SCIENCE"></SPAN>SONNET—TO SCIENCE</i></h2>
<p class="poem">
Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!<br/>
<span class="ind1">Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.</span><br/>
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,<br/>
<span class="ind1">Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?</span><br/>
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,<br/>
<span class="ind1">Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering</span><br/>
To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,<br/>
<span class="ind1">Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?</span><br/>
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?<br/>
<span class="ind1">And driven the Hamadryad from the wood</span><br/>
To seek a shelter in some happier star?<br/>
<span class="ind1">Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,</span><br/>
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me<br/>
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?<br/></p>
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