Seated one day at the organ
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERHave we not all, amid life’s petty strife
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But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
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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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And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret
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One by one the sands are flowing
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Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, ‘Grief will pass away.’
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True or false, that never dies
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Take them readily when given, Ready, too, to let them go.
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Lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.
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See how time makes all grief decay.
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Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible?
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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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Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new
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To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger
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The stars can only shine In the dark night.
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