"That golden key That opes the palace of eternity."

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"With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light."

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"O welcome, pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!"

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"Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes."

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"Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?"

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"And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die."

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"Peor and Baälim Forsake their temples dim."

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"Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones."

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"What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,-- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?"

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"Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom."

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"Far from all resort of mirth Save the cricket on the hearth."

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"Under the opening eyelids of the morn."

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"The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell."

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"And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes."

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"Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam."

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"And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light."

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"Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam."

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"Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles."

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"And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet."

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"In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth."

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"And strictly meditate the thankless Muse."

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"His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power."

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"That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp."

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"The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty."

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"Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life."

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"Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books."

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"Forget thyself to marble."

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"And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out."

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"That old man eloquent."

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"Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe."

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"Without the meed of some melodious tear."

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"I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heav'n's wide pathless way; And oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud."

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"Such as may make thee search the coffers round."

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"His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command."

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"Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies."

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"For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains."

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"Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees."

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"Then to the spicy nut-brown ale."

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"Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!"

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"It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark."

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"I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat."

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"By labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die."

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"License they mean when they cry, Liberty! For who loves that must first be wise and good."

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"Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freakt with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears."

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"In mirth that after no repenting draws."

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"The gay motes that people the sunbeams."

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"But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more."

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"Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek."

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"Time will run back and fetch the age of gold."

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"Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward."

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