"Another's sword has laid him low, Another's and another's; And every hand that dealt the blow-- Ah me! it was a brother's!"

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"Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name?"

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"That gems the starry girdle of the year."

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"Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul!"

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"And muse on Nature with a poet's eye."

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"And rustic life and poverty Grow beautiful beneath his touch."

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"O Heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save!"

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"Whose lines are mottoes of the heart, Whose truths electrify the sage."

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"On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow, His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below."

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"There shall he love when genial morn appears, Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears."

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"'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before."

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"Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?--a world without a sun."

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"'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue."

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"Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field and his feet to the foe, And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame."

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"O star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, To waft us home the message of despair?"

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"While Memory watches o'er the sad review Of joys that faded like the morning dew."

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"Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh leave the light of Hope behind! What though my winged hours of bliss have been Like angel visits, few and far between."

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"And rival all but Shakespeare's name below."

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"The world was sad, the garden was a wild, And man the hermit sigh'd--till woman smiled."

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"But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in."

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"But Hope, the charmer, linger'd still behind."

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"Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art."

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"Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance! Our land, the first garden of Liberty's tree, It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free."

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"Oh leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!"

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"O Love! in such a wilderness as this."

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"The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return."

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"In life's morning march, when my bosom was young."

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"To bear is to conquer our fate."

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"But sorrow return'd with the dawning of morn, And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away."

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"The torrent's smoothness, ere it dash below!"

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"Drink ye to her that each loves best! And if you nurse a flame That 's told but to her mutual breast, We will not ask her name."

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"When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow."

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"Ye mariners of England, That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!"

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"The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!"

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"The sentinel stars set their watch in the sky."

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"There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill; For his country he sigh'd, when at twilight repairing To wander alone by the wind-beaten hill."

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"Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep."

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"A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear."

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"Few, few shall part where many meet! The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre."

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"To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die."

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"There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time."

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"He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires,-- As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away."

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"An untimely grave."

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"The magic of a face."

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"Then fly betimes, for only they Conquer Love that run away."

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"The true University of these days is a Collection of Books."

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"Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,--imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,--"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of--the air!""

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"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity."

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"The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others."

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"A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility."

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