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Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss,

Though winning near the goal-yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed
Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;
And, happy melodist, unwearied,

For ever piping songs for ever new;
More happy love! more happy, happy love!
For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd,
For ever panting and for ever young;
All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high sorrowful and cloy'd,
A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.

Who are these coming to the sacrifice?

To what green altar, O mysterious priest,
Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?
What little town by river or sea-shore,
Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,

Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn?
And, little town, thy streets for evermore
Will silent be; and not a soul to tell

Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.

O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
With forest branches and the trodden weed;
Thou, silent form! dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!

When old age shall this generation waste,

Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

Brilliants.

A DISINHERITED SON.

O father, father! must I have no father!
To think how I shall please; to pray for him,
To spread his virtues out before my thought,
And set my soul in order after them?

To dream, and talk of in my dreaming sleep?
If I have children, and they question me

Of him who was to me as I to them;

Who taught me love, and sports, and childish lore; Placed smiles where tears had been; who bent his talk, That it might enter my low apprehension,

And laugh'd when words were lost.

BEDDOES.

RESIGNATION.

To be resign'd when ills betide,
Patient when favours are denied,

And pleased with favours given;
Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part,
This is that incense of the heart,
Whose fragrance smells to Heaven.

COTTON.

MURDER.

This is the very top,

The height, the crest, or crest unto the crest,
Of murder's arms: this is the bloodiest shame,
The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,
That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage
Presented to the tears of soft remorse.

SHAKSPERE.

MEDITATION.

I love to meditate on bliss to come,
Not that I am unhappy here, but that
The hope of higher bliss may rectify
The lower feeling which we now enjoy;
This life, this world, is not enough for us;
They are nothing to the measure of our minds.

BAILEY.

DEATH.

The life of all his blood

Is touch'd corruptibly; and his pure brain

(Which some suppose the soul's frail dwelling-house) Doth, by the idle comments that it makes, Foretel the ending of mortality.

THE SHELL.

I have seen

SHAKSPERE.

A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract
Of inland ground, applying to his ear
The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell;
To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul
Listen'd intensely; and his countenance soon
Brighten'd with joy; for murmurings from within
Were heard,-sonorous cadences, whereby,
To his belief, the monitor express'd
Mysterious union with its native sea.

LOVE.

They sin who tell us love can die :
With life all other passions fly,
All others are but vanity.

WORDSWORTH.

In Heaven ambition cannot dwell,
Nor avarice in the vaults of hell:
Earthly these passions, as of earth,

They perish where they have their birth.
But love is indestructible;

Its holy flame for ever burneth,

From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth ;

Too oft on earth a troubled guest,

At times deceived, at times opprest;
It here is tried and purified,
And hath in Heaven its perfect rest.
It soweth here with toil and care,
But the harvest time of love is there.
Oh! when a mother meets on high,
The babe she lost in infancy,
Hath she not then for pains and fears,
The day of woe, the anxious night,
For all her sorrow, all her tears,
An over-payment of delight?

SOUTHEY.

THE SHELL.

I have sinuous shells of pearly hue
Within, and they that lustre have imbibed
In the sun's palace porch; where, when unyoked
His chariot-wheel stands midway in the nave:
Shake one, and it awakes; then apply
Its polish'd lips to your attentive ear,
And it remembers its august abode

And murmurs as the Ocean murmurs there

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.

RUMOUR.

Rumour is a pipe

Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures;

And of so easy and so plain a stop,

That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still-discordant wavering multitude,
Can play upon it.

SHAKSPERE.

LIGHT.

Through the soft ways of heaven, and air, and sea,
Which open all their ports to thee;

Like a clear river thou dost glide

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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes,
Is but the several liveries;

Thou the rich dye on them bestowest;

Thy nimble pencil paints the landscape as thou goest.

COWLEY.

CARE HATH ITS END.

To those who prattle of despair,

Some friend, methinks, might wisely say—

Each day, no question, has its care,

But also every care its day.

STERLING.

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