"Oh, be wiser thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love."

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"A sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air And the blue sky, and 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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"The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face."

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"He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own."

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"The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,--her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears."

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"The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite,--a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm By thoughts supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye."

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"Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her."

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"The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!"

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"Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away."

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"In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind."

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"One of those heavenly days that cannot die."

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"That best portion of a good man's life,-- His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love."

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"My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard."

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"The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart."

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"She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove,-- A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love."

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"The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart."

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"A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye; Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky."

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"The bane of all that dread the Devil."

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"O Reader! Had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything."

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"She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy."

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"The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration."

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"Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men."

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"I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness."

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"Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness."

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"As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!"

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"Until a man might travel twelve stout miles, Or reap an acre of his neighbor's corn."

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"That heareth not the loud winds when they call, And moveth all together, if it moves at all."

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"On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away."

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"A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more."

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"But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity."

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"But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?"

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"Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,--air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind."

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"That blessed mood, In which the burden of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened."

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"Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life."

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"A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven."

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"She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!"

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"The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one!"

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"Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now."

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

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"A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death?"

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"And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love."

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"Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings, Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised."

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"Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither."

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

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"Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels."

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"Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost."

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"The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe and heal and bless Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers."

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"With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars."

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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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"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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