"She smiles, and smiles, and will not sigh, While we for hopeless passion die: Yet she could love, those eyes declare, Were but men nobler than they are. Eagerly once her gracious ken Was turn'd upon the sons of men; But light the serious visage grew— She look'd, and smiled, and saw them through. Our petty souls, our strutting wits, Our labour'd puny passion-fits,— Oh, may she scorn them still, till we Scorn them as bitterly as she."
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Matthew Arnold, "Excuse", in Empedocles on Etna, &c. (1852), p. 75
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