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First Line: Honour aright the philosophic thought
Last Line: Frees her sad-centred thoughts, and gives them pleasant range.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Venice, Italy; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums


HONOUR aright the philosophic thought,
That they who, by the trouble of the brain
Or heart, for usual life are overwrought,
Hither should come to discipline their pain.
A single convent on a shoaly plain
Of waters never changing their dull face
But by the sparkles of thick-falling rain
Or lines of puny waves, -- such is the place.
Strong medicine enters by the ear and eye;
That low unaltering dash against the wall
May lull the angriest dream to vacancy;
And Melancholy, finding nothing strange,
For her poor self to jar upon at all,
Frees her sad-centred thoughts, and gives them pleasant range.





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