Have we not all, amid life’s petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTEROne by one the sands are flowing
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Seated one day at the organ
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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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Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming,
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Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible?
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Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, ‘Grief will pass away.’
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Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies
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Be strong, O Heart of mine, Look towards the light!
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I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys.
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One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going
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No star is lost once we have seen
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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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Each man has some part to play.
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I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
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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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