3.12.2005

Discovery

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Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star’d at the Pacific—and all his men
Look’d at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.


Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," ln. 9-14.

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