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The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.

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Nature's old felicities.

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Delivered from the galling yoke of time.

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Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!

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But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

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In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent things, Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones, And on the vacant air.

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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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The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

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And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.

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one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

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It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.... They both speak by and to the same organs; the bodies in which both of them are clothed may be said to be of the same substance, their affections are kindred, and almost identical, not necessarily differing even in degree; Poetry sheds no tears "such as Angels weep," but natural and human tears; she can boast of no celestial ichor that distinguishes her vital juices from those of prose; the same human blood circulates through the veins of them both.

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

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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

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... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.

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Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

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Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

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

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Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

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Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance.

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'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes!

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