Imagination is a single star
In the mind’s heaven, that unpeopled
With a pure, high-bred, noble race of thoughts,
Unhusbanded, grows rank abortion, soon
Consumes itself.
From: Norton, Thomas, The Hermit, A Poem, and Miscellaneous Verse, 1872, Smith, Elder & Co.: London, p. 137.
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Date: 1872
By: Thomas Norton (fl. 1872)
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