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Macmillan's Magazine March	A
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Like flowers sequestered from the sun	B
And wind of summer day by day	C
I dwindled paler whilst my hair	D
Showed the first tinge of grey	C
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'Oh what is life that we should live	E
Or what is death that we must die	F
A bursting bubble is our life	G
I also what am I '	-
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'What is your grief now tell me sweet	H
That I may grieve ' my sister said	I
And stayed a white embroidering hand	J
And raised a golden head	I
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Her tresses showed a richer mass	K
Her eyes looked softer than my own	L
Her figure had a statelier height	M
Her voice a tenderer tone	L
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'Some must be second and not first	N
All cannot be the first of all	O
Is not this too but vanity	P
I stumble like to fall	O
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'So yesterday I read the acts	Q
Of Hector and each clangorous king	R
With wrathful great Aeacides	Q
Old Homer leaves a sting '	-
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The comely face looked up again	S
The deft hand lingered on the thread	I
'Sweet tell me what is Homer's sting	R
Old Homer's sting ' she said	I
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'He stirs my sluggish pulse like wine	T
He melts me like the wind of spice	Q
Strong as strong Ajax' red right hand	J
And grand like Juno's eyes	Q
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'I cannot melt the sons of men	S
I cannot fire and tempest toss	Q
Besides those days were golden days	Q
Whilst these are days of dross '	-
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She laughed a feminine low laugh	U
Yet did not stay her dexterous hand	J
'Now tell me of those days ' she said	I
'When time ran golden sand '	-
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'Then men were men of might and right	M
Sheer might at least and weighty swords	Q
Then men in open blood and fire	V
Bore witness to their words	Q
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'Crest rearing kings with whistling spears	Q
But if these shivered in the shock	W
They wrenched up hundred rooted trees	Q
Or hurled the effacing rock	W
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'Then hand to hand then foot to foot	X
Stern to the death grip grappling then	S
Who ever thought of gunpowder	V
Amongst these men of men	S
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'They knew whose hand struck home the death	Y
They knew who broke but would not bend	Z
Could venerate an equal foe	A2
And scorn a laggard friend	Z
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'Calm in the utmost stress of doom	B2
Devout toward adverse powers above	C2
They hated with intenser hate	D2
And loved with fuller love	C2
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'Then heavenly beauty could allay	C
As heavenly beauty stirred the strife	G
By them a slave was worshipped more	E2
Than is by us a wife '	-
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She laughed again my sister laughed	F2
Made answer o'er the laboured cloth	G2
'I would rather be one of us	Q
Than wife or slave or both '	-
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'Oh better then be slave or wife	G
Than fritter now blank life away	C
Then night had holiness of night	M
And day was sacred day	C
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'The princess laboured at her loom	B2
Mistress and handmaiden alike	H2
Beneath their needles grew the field	I2
With warriors armed to strike	H2
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'Or look again dim Dian's face	Q
Gleamed perfect through the attendant night	M
Were such not better than those holes	Q
Amid that waste of white	M
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'A shame it is our aimless life	G
I rather from my heart would feed	J2
From silver dish in gilded stall	O
With wheat and wine the steed	J2
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'The faithful steed that bore my lord	K2
In safety through the hostile land	J
The faithful steed that arched his neck	L2
To fondle with my hand '	-
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Her needle erred a moment's pause	Q
A moment's patience all was well	M2
Then she 'But just suppose the horse	Q
Suppose the rider fell	M2
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'Then captive in an alien house	Q
Hungering on exile's bitter bread	I
They happy they who won the lot	N2
Of sacrifice ' she said	I
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Speaking she faltered while her look	O2
Showed forth her passion like a glass	Q
With hand suspended kindling eye	F
Flushed cheek how fair she was	Q
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'Ah well be those the days of dross	Q
This if you will the age of gold	P2
Yet had those days a spark of warmth	Q2
While these are somewhat cold	P2
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'Are somewhat mean and cold and slow	A2
Are stunted from heroic growth	R2
We gain but little when we prove	S2
The worthlessness of both '	-
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'But life is in our hands ' she said	I
'In our own hands for gain or loss	Q
Shall not the Sevenfold Sacred Fire	V
Suffice to purge our dross	Q
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'Too short a century of dreams	Q
One day of work sufficient length	T2
Why should not you why should not I	F
Attain heroic strength	T2
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'Our life is given us as a blank	U2
Ourselves must make it blest or curst	I
Who dooms me I shall only be	P
The second not the first	I
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'Learn from old Homer if you will	V2
Such wisdom as his books have said	I
In one the acts of Ajax shine	T
In one of Diomed	I
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'Honoured all heroes whose high deeds	Q
Thro' life till death enlarge their span	W2
Only Achilles in his rage	X2
And sloth is less than man '	-
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'Achilles only less than man	W2
He less than man who half a god	I
Discomfited all Greece with rest	I
Cowed Ilion with a nod	I
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'He offered vengeance lifelong grief	Y2
To one dear ghost uncounted price	Q
Beasts Trojans adverse gods himself	Z2
Heaped up the sacrifice	Q
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'Self immolated to his friend	I
Shrined in world's wonder Homer's page	X2
Is this the man the less than men	S
Of this degenerate age '	-
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'Gross from his acorns tusky boar	E2
Does memorable acts like his	Q
So for her snared offended young	A3
Bleeds the swart lioness '	-
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But here she paused our eyes had met	I
And I was whitening with the jeer	B3
She rose 'I went too far ' she said	I
Spoke low 'Forgive me dear	B3
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'To me our days seem pleasant days	Q
Our home a haven of pure content	I
Forgive me if I said too much	C3
So much more than I meant	I
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'Homer tho' greater than his gods	Q
With rough hewn virtues was sufficed	I
And rough hewn men but what are such	C3
To us who learn of Christ '	-
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The much moved pathos of her voice	Q
Her almost tearful eyes her cheek	D3
Grown pale confessed the strength of love	C2
Which only made her speak	D3
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For mild she was of few soft words	Q
Most gentle easy to be led	I
Content to listen when I spoke	E3
And reverence what I said	I
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I elder sister by six years	Q
Not half so glad or wise or good	I
Her words rebuked my secret self	Z2
And shamed me where I stood	I
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She never guessed her words reproved	I
A silent envy nursed within	F3
A selfish souring discontent	I
Pride born the devil's sin	F3
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I smiled half bitter half in jest	I
'The wisest man of all the wise	Q
Left for his summary of life	G
Vanity of vanities	Q
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'Beneath the sun there's nothing new	G3
Men flow men ebb mankind flows on	H3
If I am wearied of my life	G
Why so was Solomon	B
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'Vanity of vanities he preached	I
Of all he found of all he sought	I
Vanity of vanities the gist	I
Of all the words he taught	I
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'This in the wisdom of the world	I
In Homer's page in all we find	I
As the sea is not filled so yearns	Q
Man's universal mind	I
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'This Homer felt who gave his men	S
With glory but a transient state	I
His very Jove could not reverse	Q
Irrevocable fate	I
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'Uncertain all their lot save this	Q
Who wins must lose who lives must die	I
All trodden out into the dark	I3
Alike all vanity '	-
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She scarcely answered when I paused	I
But rather to herself said 'One	S
Is here ' low voiced and loving 'Yea	F
Greater than Solomon '	-
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So both were silent she and I	I
She laid her work aside and went	I
Into the garden walks like spring	R
All gracious with content	I
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A little graver than her wont	I
Because her words had fretted me	P
Not warbling quite her merriest tune	S
Bird like from tree to tree	P
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I chose a book to read and dream	J3
Yet half the while with furtive eyes	Q
Marked how she made her choice of flowers	Q
Intuitively wise	Q
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And ranged them with instinctive taste	I
Which all my books had failed to teach	K3
Fresh rose herself and daintier	P
Than blossom of the peach	K3
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By birthright higher than myself	Z2
Tho' nestling of the self same nest	I
No fault of hers no fault of mine	S
But stubborn to digest	I
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I watched her till my book unmarked	I
Slid noiseless to the velvet floor	P
Till all the opulent summer world	I
Looked poorer than before	P
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Just then her busy fingers ceased	I
Her fluttered colour went and came	L3
I knew whose step was on the walk	M3
Whose voice would name her name	L3
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Well twenty years have passed since then	S
My sister now a stately wife	G
Still fair looks back in peace and sees	Q
The longer half of life	G
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The longer half of prosperous life	G
With little grief or fear or fret	I
She loved and loving long ago	A2
Is loved and loving yet	I
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A husband honourable brave	N3
Is her main wealth in all the world	I
And next to him one like herself	Z2
One daughter golden curled	I
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Fair image of her own fair youth	O3
As beautiful and as serene	S
With almost such another love	C2
As her own love has been	S
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Yet tho' of world wide charity	P
And in her home most tender dove	C2
Her treasure and her heart are stored	I
In the home land of love	C2
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She thrives God's blessed husbandry	P
She like a vine is full of fruit	I
Her passion flower climbs up toward heaven	S
Tho' earth still binds its root	I
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I sit and watch my sister's face	Q
How little altered since the hours	Q
When she a kind light hearted girl	P3
Gathered her garden flowers	Q
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Her song just mellowed by regret	I
For having teased me with her talk	M3
Then all forgetful as she heard	I
One step upon the walk	M3
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While I I sat alone and watched	I
My lot in life to live alone	S
In mine own world of interests	Q
Much felt but little shown	S
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Not to be first how hard to learn	S
That lifelong lesson of the past	I
Line graven on line and stroke on stroke	E3
But thank God learned at last	I
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So now in patience I possess	Q
My soul year after tedious year	P
Content to take the lowest place	Q
The place assigned me here	P
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Yet sometimes when I feel my strength	T2
Most weak and life most burdensome	Q3
I lift mine eyes up to the hills	Q
From whence my help shall come	Q3
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Yea sometimes still I lift my heart	I
To the Archangelic trumpet burst	I
When all deep secrets shall be shown	S
And many last be first	I