1850
ELEONORA
by Edgar Allan Poe
ELEONORA
Sub conservatione formae specificae salva anima.
RAYMOND LULLY.
I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion.
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether
madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence- whether much that is
glorious- whether all that is profound- does not spring from disease
of thought- from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general
intellect. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which
escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they
obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in awakening, to find that
they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they
learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere
knowledge which is of evil. They penetrate, however, rudderless or
compassless into the vast ocean of the "light ineffable," and again,
like the adventures of the Nubian geographer, "agressi sunt mare
tenebrarum, quid in eo esset exploraturi.
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