Teach us, sprite or bird,
What sweet thoughts are thine:
I have never heard
Praise of love or wine
That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
(To A Skylark)
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To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite To forgive wrongs darker than death or night To defy power which seems omnipotent To love, and bear to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates
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One darkest glen
Sends from its woods of musk-rose twined with jasmine
A soul-dissolving odor to invite
To some more lovely mystery.
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Yet every heart contains perfection's germ.
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He eagerly pursues
Beyond the realms of dream that fleeting shade;
He overleaps the bounds.
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Others I see whom these surround --
Smiling they live, and call life pleasure; --
To me that cup has been dealt in another measure.
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