No star is lost once we have seen
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERKinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.
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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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No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.
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Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,
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For when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
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We always may be what we might have been.
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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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Every word man’s lips have uttered Echoes in God’s skies.
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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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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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But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late.
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I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.
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One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going
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To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger
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