"How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart."
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"For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
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"Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud."
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"A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love."
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"What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?"
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"The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet."
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"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"
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"I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent"
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"Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary."
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"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'"
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"God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone."
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"Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution."
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"And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance."
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"Man can embody truth but he cannot know it."
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"Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun."
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"The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue."
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"The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed."
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"Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds."
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"An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick"
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"A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think."
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