Alexander Pope |
A Little Learning A little learning is a dangerous thing ; |
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : |
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, |
And drinking largely sobers us again. |
Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts, |
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts ; |
While from the bounded level of our mind |
Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind, |
But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise |
New distant scenes of endless science rise ! |
So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, |
Mount o’er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; |
The eternal snows appear already past, |
And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ; |
But those attained, we tremble to survey |
The growing labours of the lengthened way ; |
The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, |
Hill peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! - Alexander Pope |
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