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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

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Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.

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We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.

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A Primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him And it was something more.

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Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!

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In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.

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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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O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!

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To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!

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Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.

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Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

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Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

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Departing summer hath assumed An aspect tenderly illumed, The gentlest look of spring; That calls from yonder leafy shade Unfaded, yet prepared to fade, A timely carolling.

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The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can.

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Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

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O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

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Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee! . . . . . . Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: So didst thou travel on life's common way In cheerful godliness.

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For nature then to me was all in all.

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The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!

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I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

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