What'd you have said a few months ago, Ranger?

It is a common mistake, made by those, who, in studying, no matter what be their object, fail to discover the forest they are looking for, for reason of the many trees they find in their way, to disconnect thought and sense, looking at the former as a form and a field of mental acquisition altogether of its own, and possibilitating a cognition which is entirely out of the reach of sense and common judgment.

a Tarzanesque shout of exultation and triumph

That wondrous frame where melody began / Lay as a tomb defaced that no eye cared to scan.