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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.

Bayard Taylor

Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.
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Mirror Mirrors Self Summer Wander
But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!
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Moon Night Stars
We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
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Ocean Running Space
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Jewelry Tangible Taste
The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet, And all the streams with vernal-scented reed Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
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Color Flame Rain Rocks Sprinkle
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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Heart Solitude
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Observation People
The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Streams Wells Wisdom
He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
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Experience Heart Men
Peace the offspring is of Power.
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Offspring Peace
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Doors Experience House
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Pain Sea Wind
And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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Deeds Prayer Virtuous
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of ‘creature comforts,’ a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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Comfort Sea Voyages
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels – are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
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Beautiful Flower Scotland
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin

And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.

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