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“O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!”

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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

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Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we…

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Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe? Methinks such things should not die and dissipate, when a hair can live for centuries, and a brick of Egypt will last three thousand years. I am content to believe that the mind of man survives,…

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How silent are the winds!

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I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue…

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Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown; And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The Stormy Petrel finds a home,-- A home, if such a place may be, For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair…

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Gamaun is a dainty steed, Strong, black, and of a noble breed, Full of fire, and full of bone, With all his line of…

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Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades…

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The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound, It runneth the earth's…

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The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

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In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell; Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour, But at the…

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I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

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