But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERHave we not all, amid life’s petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?
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I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.
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Have we not all, amid life’s petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?
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Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new
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Have we not all, amid life’s petty strife
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One by one the sands are flowing
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With heaven’s light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit
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Every word man’s lips have uttered Echoes in God’s skies.
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On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.
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Hours are golden links, God’s token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them
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I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys.
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Dreams grow holy put in action.
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No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.
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But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
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Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies
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One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.
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