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He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

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One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.

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Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

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The eye— it cannot choose but see; we cannot bid the ear be still; our bodies feel, where'er they be, against or with our will.

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

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Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.

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This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

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My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man.

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The child shall become father to the man.

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Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.

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Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

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Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn

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Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.

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The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

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

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Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

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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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And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.

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

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