I would make  
  Reason my guide, but she should sometimes sit  
  Patiently by the way-side, while I traced  
  The mazes of the pleasant wilderness  
  Around me. She should be my counsellor,  
  But not my tyrant. For the spirit needs  
  Impulses from a deeper source than hers,  
  And there are motions, in the mind of man,  
  That she must look upon with awe. I bow  
  Reverently to her dictates, but not less  
  Hold to the fair illusions of old time —  
  lllusions that shed brightness over life,  
  And glory over nature.
"The Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus" in Poems (1841)



















