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Self-gather'd in her prophet-mind,
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To mingle with the human race, T

And part by part to men reveal'd

The fullness of her face

Grave mother of majestic works,

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From her isle-altar gazing down, İA Who, God-like, grasps the triple forks,

And, King-like, wears the crown:

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Her open eyes desire the truth.

The wisdom of a thousand yearsly done W

Is in them. May perpetual youth.
Keep dry their light from tears;

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and shine,

Make bright our days and light our dreams,

Turning to scorn with lips divine
The falsehood of extremes!

Of old sat freedom on the heights

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LOVE thou thy land, with love far-brought,
From out the storied Past, and used
Within the Present, but transfused

Thro' future time by power of thought.

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Love, that endures not sordid ends,

For English natures, freemen, friends,
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thy land
Nor feed with crude imaginings, Hob
The herd, wild hearts and feeble wings,
That every sophister can lime, illor sinn

Deliver not the tasks of might

To weakness, neither hide the ray
From those, not blind, who wait for day,
Tho' sitting girt with doubtful light.

Make knowledge circle with the winds;
But let her herald, Reverence, fly W
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Bear seed of men and growth of minds.

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Cut Prejudice against the grain on at al
But gentle words are always gain :
Regard the weakness of thy peers:

Nor toil for title, place, or touch
Of pension, neith

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It grows to guerdon after-days:

Nor deal in watch-words overmuch;

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Not swift nor slow to change, but firm :
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With Life, that, working strongly, binds-
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For Nature also, cold and warm,
And moist and dry, devising long,
Thro' many agents making strong,
Matures the individual form.

Meet is it changes should control
Our being, lest we rust in ease.
We all are changed by still degrees,
All but the basis of the soul.

So let the change which comes be free

To ingroove itself with that which flies,
And work, a joint of state, that plies

Its office, moved with sympathy.

A saying, hard to shape in act;

For all the past of Time reveals A bridal dawn of thunder-peals, Wherever Thought hath wedded Fact.

Ev'n now we hear with inward strife
A motion toiling in the gloom-
The Spirit of the years to come
Yearning to mix himself with Life.

A slow-develop'd strength awaits
Completion in a painful school;
Phantoms of other forms of rule,
New Majesties of mighty States-

The warders of the growing hour,

But vague in vapour, hard to mark
And round them sea and air
With great contrivances of Power.

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Love thou thy land

thy land

Love thou of many changes, aptly join'd,pale artMx7
Is bodied forth the second whole.
Regard gradation, lest the soul

Of Discord race the rising wind;

A wind to puff your idol-fires,

And heap their ashes on the head;
To shame the boasting words, we said,
That we are wiser than our sires.

Oh yet, if Nature's evil star

Drive men in manhood, as in youth,
To follow flying steps of Truth
Across the brazen bridge of war-

If New and Old, disastrous feud, and
Must ever shock, like armèd foes,

And this be true, till Time shall close,

That Principles are rain'd in blood; wrontY7

Not yet the wise of heart would cease

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To hold his hope thro' shame and guilt, But with his hand against the hilt, Would pace the troubled land, like Peace;

Not less, tho' dogs of Faction bay, entire

Would serve his kind in deed and word, Certain, if knowledge bring the sword, That knowledge takes the sword away—

Would love the gleams of good that broker
From either side, nor veil his eyes:

And if some dreadful need should rise
Would strike, and firmly, and one stroke:

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As we bear blossom of the dead;

Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay.

The Goose

THE GOOSE, had baA

I KNEW an old wife lean and poor,
Her rags scarce held together;
There strode a stranger to the door,
And it was windy weather.

He held a goose upon his arm,
He uttered rhyme and reason,

'Here, take the goose, and keep you warm,
It is a stormy season.'

She caught the white goose by the leg,

A goose- -'twas no great matter.

The goose let fall a golden egg

With cackle and with clatter.

She dropt the goose, and caught the pelf,
And ran to tell her neighbours ;
And bless'd herself, and cursed herself,
And rested from her labours.

And feeding high, and living soft, w s
Grew plump and able-bodied;
Until the grave churchwarden doff'd,
The parson smirk'd and nodded.

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