Tears washed the trouble from her face!
(The Pagan World)
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But is a calm like this, in truth,The crowning end of life and youth,
And when this boon rewards the dead,
Are all debts paid, has all been said?
Matthew Arnold
Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.
Matthew Arnold
And then he thinks he knows; The hills where his life rose, And the sea where it goes.
Matthew Arnold
For what wears out the life of mortal men?
Matthew Arnold
Philistinism We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
Matthew Arnold
I ask but that my death may find
The freedom to my life denied;
Ask but the folly of mankind,
Then, at last, to quit my side.
Matthew Arnold
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