Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERBut where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
More Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes
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Seated one day at the organ
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It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
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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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Hours are golden links, God’s token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them
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Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, ‘Grief will pass away.’
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Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible?
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I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys.
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Each man has some part to play.
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Have we not all, amid life’s petty strife
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Do not look at life’s long sorrow; see how small each moment’s pain.
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Lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.
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With heaven’s light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit
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One by one the sands are flowing
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I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.
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See how time makes all grief decay.
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