I will bring fire to thee.
Euripides.—’Androm’.
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The bells! — ah, the bells!
The little silver bells!
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Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary
Of lofty contemplation left to Time
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Pardon, Agathos, the weakness of a spirit new-fledged with immortality!
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PART II
High on a mountain of enamell'd head-
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The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see
The wantonest singing birds,
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Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers,
Thy gentlest of all gentle names dost take!
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Not long ago, the writer of these lines,
In the mad pride of intellectuality,
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Beloved! amid the earnest woes
That crowd around my earthly path-
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The ring is on my hand, And the wreath is on my brow;
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I saw thee on thy bridal day-
When a burning blush came o'er thee,
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Thou wouldst be loved?--then let thy heart
From its present pathway part not;
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Elizabeth, it surely is most fit
[Logic and common usage so commanding]
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I dwelt alone
In a world of moan,
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Thank Heaven! the crisis-
The danger is past,
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O! I care not that my earthly lot
Hath little of Earth in it,
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When from your gems of thought I turn To those pure orbs, your heart to learn,
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Kind solace in a dying hour!
Such, father, is not (now) my theme-
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Once it smiled a silent dell
Where the people did not dwell;
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Of all who hail thy presence as the morning-
Of all to whom thine absence is the night-
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Lo! 'tis a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years!
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Fair river! in thy bright, clear flow
Of crystal, wandering water,
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PART I O! nothing earthly save the ray
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I'll tell you a plan for gaining wealth,
Better than banking, trade or leases —
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"Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce,
"Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet.
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Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
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Sancta Maria! turn thine eyes -
Upon the sinner's sacrifice,
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There are some qualities- some incorporate things,
That have a double life, which thus is made
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The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crispéd and sere--
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IT is with humility really unassumed -–it is with a sentiment even of awe
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