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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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True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.

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A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.

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His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.

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But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.

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The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

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Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time.

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in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

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Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.

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Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Like harmony in music; there is a dark Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles Discordant elements, makes them cling together In one society.

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Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.

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Careless of books, yet having felt the power Of Nature, by the gentle agency Of natural objects, led me on to feel For passions that were not my own, and think (At random and imperfectly indeed) On man, the heart of man, and human life.

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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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Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.

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A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.

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Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.

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Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.

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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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Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude, and only there;With hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort and expectation, and desire,And something evermore about to be.

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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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