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Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this toil and trouble?

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

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It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.

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To be young was very heaven!

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Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.

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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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The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

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A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain, and bees Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky - I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless.

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The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height.

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For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

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He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.

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I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.

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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

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

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Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect

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But He is risen, a later star of dawn.

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The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone

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Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

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