But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERIt seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
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On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.
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No star is lost once we have seen
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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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Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new
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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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Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us
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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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Do not strive to grasp them all.
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Seated one day at the organ
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Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, ‘Grief will pass away.’
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See how time makes all grief decay.
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One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going
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Every word man’s lips have uttered Echoes in God’s skies.
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