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We should waste no moments in We should be from our clamorous

weak regret,

If the day were but one;

selves set free, To work or to pray,

If what we remember and what we And to be what the Father would

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Wheel, wheel through the sunshine,
Wheel, wheel through the shadow;

NOR force nor fraud shall sunder us! There must be odors round the pine,

O ye

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For God. O ye, who in eternal
youth

Speak with a living and creative flood
This universal English, and do stand
Its breathing book; live worthy of
that grand
Heroic utterance, parted, yet a
whole,
Far, yet unsevered,- children brave
and free

Of the great mother-tongue, and ye

shall be

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brake

Perchance some nightingale doth
shake
[song;
His feathers, and the air is full of
In those old days when I was young
and strong,

He used to sing on yonder garden tree,
Beside the nursery.

Lords of an empire wide as Shakes-Along my life my length I lay,

peare's soul,

Sublime as Milton's immemorial

theme,

I fill to-morrow and yesterday,

I am warm with the suns that have long since set,

And rich as Chaucer's speech, and I am warm with the summers that are

fair as Spenser's dream.

HOME, WOunded.

STAY wherever you will,

By the mount or under the hill,
Or down by the little river:
Stay as long as you please,
Give me only a bud from the trees,
Or a blade of grass in morning dew,
Or a cloudy violet clearing to blue,
I could look on it forever.

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