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How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!

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Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

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poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

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The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.

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Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

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By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!

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The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.

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The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone

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Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn

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In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration: - feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

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Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

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"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

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The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.

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Death is the quiet haven of us all.

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In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .

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Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

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Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

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Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.

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To the solid ground Of nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye.

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But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?

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