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my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion.

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She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!

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Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

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As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.

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

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At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.

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Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.

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That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone!

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Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.

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Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.

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Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

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Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

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All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

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A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not unblest- compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope; Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

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Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

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And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.

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Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

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We live by admiration, hope and love.

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