To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTEROne by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below
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Do not strive to grasp them all.
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See how time makes all grief decay.
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And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret
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Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was.
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It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
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No star is lost once we have seen
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Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible?
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Seated one day at the organ
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On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.
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For when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
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Be strong to hope, O Heart! Though day is bright,
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Have we not all, amid life’s petty strife
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True or false, that never dies
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But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
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One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.
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