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She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!

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The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

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Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves.

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I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

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Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!

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Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan.

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Rest and be thankful.

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Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.

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Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.

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How fast has brother followed brother, From sunshine to the sunless land!

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Far from the world I walk, and from all care.

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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 though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

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Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.

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Oh, be wise, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

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The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

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Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.

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A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

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In years that bring the philosophic mind.

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