Fact and Fancy by HP Lovecraft read by Zane C Weber

Fact and FancyBy H. P. LovecraftHow dull the wretch, whose philosophic mindDisdains the pleasures of fantastic kind;Whose prosy thoughts the joys of life exclude,And wreck the solace of the poet’s mood!Young Zeno, practic’d in the Stoic’s art,Rejects the language of the glowing heart;Dissolves sweet Nature to a mess of laws;Condemns th’ effect whilst looking for the cause;Freezes poor Ovid in an ic’d review,And sneers because his fables are untrue!In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!Stay! vandal sophist, whose deep lore would blastThe graceful legends of the story’d past;Whose tongue in censure flays th’ embellish’d page,And scolds the comforts of a dreary age:Would’st strip the foliage from the vital boughTill all men grow as wisely dull as thou?Happy the man whose fresh, untainted eyeDiscerns a Pantheon in the spangled sky;Finds Sylphs and Dryads in the waving trees,And spies soft Notus in the southern breeze;For whom the stream a cheering carol sings,While reedy music by the fountain rings;To whom the waves a Nereid tale confideTill friendly presence fills the rising tide.Happy is he, who void of learning’s woes,Th’ ethereal life of body’d Nature knows:I scorn the sage that tells me it but seems,And flout his gravity in sunlit dreams!Find us online at thatsnotcanon.com/epigraphySubscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.