"Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever."

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"That jewell'd mass of millinery, That oil'd and curl'd Assyrian Bull."

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"Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow!"

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"But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me."

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"Thy leaf has perish'd in the green, And while we breathe beneath the sun, The world, which credits what is done, Is cold to all that might have been."

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"His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true."

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"And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech."

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"But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry."

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"Some novel power Sprang up forever at a touch, And hope could never hope too much In watching thee from hour to hour."

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"Who battled for the True, the Just."

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"So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life."

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"O last regret, regret can die!"

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"So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold."

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"And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne."

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"I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this."

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"I am going a long way With these thou seëst--if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)-- To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound."

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"Large elements in order brought, And tracts of calm from tempest made, And world-wide fluctuation sway'd, In vassal tides that follow'd thought."

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"That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies; That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright; But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight."

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"For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry."

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"It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all."

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"Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in!"

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"I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things."

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"Gorgonized me from head to foot, With a stony British stare."

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"With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans, And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair."

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"Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky!"

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"Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed."

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"Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change."

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"Unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square."

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"Mastering the lawless science of our law,-- That codeless myriad of precedent, That wilderness of single instances."

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"Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime."

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"Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower."

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"The great world's altar-stairs, That slope through darkness up to God."

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"Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying! Blow, bugle! answer, echoes! dying, dying, dying."

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"Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay."

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"'T is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."

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"So many worlds, so much to do, So little done, such things to be."

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"Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break."

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"That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew."

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"Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay."

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"Who keeps the keys of all the creeds."

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"In that fierce light which beats upon a throne."

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"Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand! Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be!"

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"Let knowledge grow from more to more."

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"A rosebud set with little wilful thorns, And sweet as English air could make her, she."

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"One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves."

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"Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be."

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"Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null."

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"We are ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times."

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"For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever."

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"And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him."

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