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Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

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A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

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Earth has not anything to show more fair.

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In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.

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The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

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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; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.

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All that we behold is full of blessings.

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There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

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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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The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

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Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.

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The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.

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These hoards of wealth you can unlock at will.

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Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.

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The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.

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

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Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.

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Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

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By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same!

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