Crossword-Solution: PERCIPIENCE 11 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Perhaps Thy ancient rote-restricted ways Thy ripening rule transcends; That listless effort tends To grow percipient with advance of days, And with percipience mends.

SPIRIT OF THE YEARS O would that I could move It to enchain thee, And shut thee up a thousand years!--[to cite A grim terrestrial tale of one thy like] Thou Iago of the Incorporeal World, “As they would say below there.” SPIRIT OF THE PITIES Would thou couldst! But move That scoped above percipience, Sire, It cannot be! SHADE OF THE EARTH The spectacle proceeds.

When, as Shades whisper in the chasmal night, “Better, far better, no percipience here.”-- O happy lack, that I should have no child To come into my hideous heritage, And groan beneath the burden of my name![11] SPIRIT OF THE YEARS I'll speak.

III Now the other and second great belief is, that the Universe, the macrocosm, cannot be apprehended at all except as its rays converge upon the eye, brain, soul of Man, the microcosm: on you, on me, on the tiny percipient centre upon which the immense cosmic circle focuses itself as the sun upon a burning-glass--and he is not shrivelled up! Other creatures, he notes, share in his sensations; but, so far as he can discover, not in his percipience --or not in any degree worth measuring.

His spiritual percipience has rendered his soul a veritable garden of emotions, and with his pen he transplants these in the written page.