I am the splendid impulse
That comes before the thought,
The joy and exaltation
Wherein the life is caught.
(Earth Voices)
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And what is energy,In-working, which bids be
The starry pageant and the life of earth?
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The lover of child Marjory
Had one white hour of life brim full;
Now the old nurse, the rocking sea,
Hath him to lull.
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Open the door to-night
Within your heart, and light
The lantern of love there to shine afar.
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The splendid planets run
Their courses in the sun;
Love is the gravitation of the soul.
Bliss Carman
I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
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Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -- to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
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