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The past is not a package one can lay away.

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You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!

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When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground.

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Two Seasons, it is said, exist- The Summer of the Just, And this of Ours, diversified With Prospect, and with Frost- May not our Second with its First So infinite compare That We but recollect the one The other to prefer?

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... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.

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The Morning after Woe- Tis frequently the Way- Surpasses all that rose before- For utter Jubilee-.

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I must go in, the fog is rising.

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

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I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.

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The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can.

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Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.

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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

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A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad On Solitary Fields That Science cannot overtake But Human Nature feels. It waits upon the Lawn, It shows the furthest Tree Upon the furthest Slope you know It almost speaks to you. Then as Horizons step Or Noons report away Without the Formula of sound It passes and we stay - A quality of loss Affecting our Content As Trade had suddenly encroached Upon a Sacrament.

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Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.

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Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.

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Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

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He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

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The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.

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The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.

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The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.

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