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The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

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She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.

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

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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

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The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.

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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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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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Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.

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The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

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In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.

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

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Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet

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Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!

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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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Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came.

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Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.

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Habit rules the unreflecting herd.

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That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.

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