"You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow 'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,-- Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I 'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I 'm to be queen o' the May."

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"How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use,-- As tho' to breathe were life!"

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"Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet! Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change."

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"For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid."

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"I am a part of all that I have met."

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"And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet."

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"Like a dog, he hunts in dreams."

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"Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace! Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, And the great ages onward roll."

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"Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new."

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"God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone."

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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

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"More black than ash-buds in the front of March."

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"This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things."

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"Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?"

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"The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end."

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"Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence."

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"Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'T is only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood."

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"Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love."

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"But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels."

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"It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew."

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"In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love."

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"Her manners had not that repose Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere."

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"Across the walnuts and the wine."

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"Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away."

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"And thus he bore without abuse The grand old name of gentleman, Defamed by every charlatan, And soil'd with all ignoble use."

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"O Love! what hours were thine and mine, In lands of palm and southern pine; In lands of palm, of orange-blossom, Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine!"

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"Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown; Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone."

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"Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls."

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"Her eyes are homes of silent prayer."

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"Hold thou the good; define it well; For fear divine Philosophy Should push beyond her mark, and be Procuress to the Lords of Hell."

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"And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old."

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"Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace!"

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"Not once or twice in our rough-island story The path of duty was the way to glory."

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"O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever. Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! And answer, echoes, answer! dying, dying, dying."

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"All in the valley of death Rode the six hundred."

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"But oh for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!"

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"Oh good gray head which all men knew!"

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"There sinks the nebulous star we call the sun."

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"And topples round the dreary west A looming bastion fringed with fire."

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"For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun."

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"There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds."

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"The old order changeth, yielding place to new; And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world."

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"But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain."

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"Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees."

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"He seems so near, and yet so far."

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"And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land."

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"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more."

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"I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing."

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"Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love,-- Deep as first love, and wild with all regret. Oh death in life, the days that are no more!"

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"I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time."

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