The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERI know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.
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Be strong to hope, O Heart! Though day is bright,
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See how time makes all grief decay.
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We always may be what we might have been.
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To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger
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Do not strive to grasp them all.
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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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Every word man’s lips have uttered Echoes in God’s skies.
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Seated one day at the organ
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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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One by one bright gifts from heaven Joys are sent thee here below
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For when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
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It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
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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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Each man has some part to play.
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