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Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.

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If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus famliarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to the aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.

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That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.

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Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

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But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence.

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Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

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The child shall become father to the man.

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The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone

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Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps Followed each other till a dreary moor Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge, I overlooked the bed of Windermere, Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.

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Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

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A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

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Dreams, books, are each a world.

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Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.

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Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

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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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This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

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What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!

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That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.

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Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

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