ELEONORA

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 genera 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 waking 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 [Ali-Idrisi],
'agressi sunt mare tenebrarum, quid in eo esset exploraturi'
[They entered the sea of darkness in order that they might explore what was therein].
 Potičem od rase (roda) znanog po bujnosti mašte i žestini strasti.

Nazivali (Zvali?) su me bezumnim,

ali još odgovor nije dat da li ludilo jest ili nije najuzvišeniji oblik uma,
da li mnogo toga što je veličanstveno, da li sve što je istinski umno
ne izvire iz bolesti misli,
iz stanja duha uzdignutog na račun svakodnevnog intelekta

Oni koji snivaju po danu spoznaju mnoge stvari

koje izmiču onima kojima san dolazi samo u noći
U svojim sivim vizijama, ....... trenutke večnosti, i ushićenja,
budeći se sa saznanjem da su bili na rubu velike tajne

Na mahove, otkrivaju im se nagoveštaji mudrosti o dobrom

i više od toga, nepatvoreno znanje zla

Oni prodiru, međutim, bez krme i kompasa u ogromni okean ‘neizmernog svetla’
i ponovo, kao u ...... nubijskog geografa
(kroče u more tame da bi otkrili šta je u njemu)
genera intelekt: svakidašnji razum
genera (plural of genus): rodovski
(in philosophical and general use) a class of things which have common characteristics and which can be divided into subordinate kinds.
ineffable: neiskaziv, neopisiv
too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words: the ineffable mysteries of the soul
snatch: tren, mah
A brief period of time: "At the end we preferred to travel all night,/Sleeping in snatches" (T.S. Eliot) brief snatches of sleep