Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTERFor when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
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See how time makes all grief decay.
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No star is lost once we have seen
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Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible?
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Seated one day at the organ
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One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.
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Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.
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For when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
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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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But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
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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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Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new
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We always may be what we might have been.
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It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night.
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Do not strive to grasp them all.
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