Have we not all, amid life’s petty strife
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTEROne by one the sands are flowing
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The stars can only shine In the dark night.
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Dreams grow holy put in action.
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But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
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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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I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet.
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One by one the sands are flowing
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Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,
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On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.
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With heaven’s light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit
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Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible?
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See how time makes all grief decay.
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It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
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Do not strive to grasp them all.
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Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light.
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