Sleep and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet give thanks thou hast no more to live And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.
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The thorns he spares when the rose is taken The rocks are left when he wastes the plain The wind that wanders, the weeds wind-shaken, These remain.Algernon Charles Swinburne
A creed is a rod, And a crown is of night; But this thing is God; To be man with thy might, To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, and live out thy life as the light.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.
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Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean the world has grown grey from thy breath; We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death.
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Those eyes the greenest of things blue The bluest of things grey.
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
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