Your Life shall chaffer in the market-place,
A merchant trading in the goods of grief.
(The Jacquerie A Fragment)
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Yea, it forgives me all my sins,Fits life to love like rhyme to rhyme,
And tunes the task each day begins
By the last trumpet-note of Time.
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But soon I learned full well, poor fool!
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Not larger than two eyes, they lie
Beneath the many-changing sky
And mirror all of life and time,
-- Serene and dainty pantomime.
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Now the swift sail of straining life is furled,
And through the stillness of my soul is whirled
The throbbing of the hearts of half the world.
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A rose of perfect red, embossed
With silver sheens of crystal frost,
Yet warm, nor life nor fragrance lost.
Sidney Lanier
I know men waking who appear to dream.
Sidney Lanier
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