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feelings too Of unremembered pleasure; such, perhaps,...

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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.

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Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies;...

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Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong.

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Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height,...

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The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

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The power, which all Acknowledge when thus moved, which Nature thus...

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Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power...

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'How is it that you live, and what is it you do?'

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Is there not An art, a music, and a stream of words That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

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What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!

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The rapt One, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:...

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Our Luke shall leave us, Isabel; the land Shall not go from us, and it shall be free;...

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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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'But they are dead; those two are dead! Their spirits are in heaven!'...

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And mighty poets in their misery dead.

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One great Society alone on Earth, The noble Living, and the noble Dead.

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One of those heavenly days that cannot die.

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The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

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The Solitary answered: Such a Form Full well I recollect. We often crossed Each other's path; but, as the Intruder seemed Fondly to prize the silence which he kept, And I as willingly did cherish mine, We met, and passed, like shadows. I have heard, From my good Host, that being crazed in brain By unrequited love, he scaled the rocks, Dived into caves, and pierced the matted woods, In hope to find some virtuous herb of power To cure his malady!

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