Burn upward each to his point of bliss --
Since, the end of life being manifest,
He had burned his way through the world to this.
(The Statue And The Bust)
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Have you found your life distasteful My life did, and does, smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish When mine fail me, I 'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish My sun sets to rise again.
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By this time he has tested his first plough, And studied his last chapter of St John.
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I dream of a red-rose tree.
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Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
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All service ranks the same with God, With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we there is no last nor first.
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