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Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

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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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There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

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When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?

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One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.

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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

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But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things.

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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

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As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.

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Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and shadow!

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Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence.

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A Primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him And it was something more.

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What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.

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

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The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a love that had no need of a remoter charm by thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.

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"One impulse from a vernal wood

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The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

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Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.

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in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

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