Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/09089_Field_TCGG T854.txt

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     Resistless falls: The Muse obeys the Pow’r.
     She comes! she comes! the sable Throne behold
     Of Night  Primaeval, and of Chaos  old!
     Before her, Fancy’s  gilded clouds decay,
     And all its varying Rain-bows die away.
     Wit  shoots in vain its momentary fires,
     The meteor drops, and in a flash expires.
     As one by one, at dread Medea’s strain,
     The sick’ning stars fade off th’ethereal plain;
     As Argus’ eyes by Hermes’ wand opprest,
     Clos’d one by one to everlasting rest;
     Thus at her felt approach, and secret might,
     Art  after Art  goes out, and all is Night.
     See skulking Truth  to her old Cavern fled,
     Mountains of Casuistry heap’d o’er her head!
     Philosophy , that lean’d on Heav’n before,