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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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Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

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A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

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The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

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The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.

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Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!

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

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Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!

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Wisdom married to immortal verse.

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To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

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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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The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts.

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Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.

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

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Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.

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Even thus last night, and two nights more I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep, by any stealth: So do not let me wear to-night away. Without thee what is all the morning's wealth? Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!

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Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

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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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Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!

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What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

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