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A youth unto herself Grief took	A
Whom everything of joy forsook	A
And men passed with denying head	B
Saying 'T were better he were dead	B
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Grief took him and with master touch	C
Molded his being I marveled much	C
To see her magic with the clay	D
So much she gave and took away	D
Daily she wrought and her design	E
Grew daily clearer and more fine	E
To make the beauty of his shape	F
Serve for the spirit's free escape	F
With liquid fire she filled his eyes	G
She graced his lips with swift surmise	G
Of sympathy for others' woe	H
And made his every fibre flow	H
In fairer curves On brow and chin	I
And tinted cheek drawn clean and thin	I
She sculptured records rich great Grief	J
She made him loving made him lief	J
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I marveled for where others saw	K
A failing frame with many a flaw	K
Meseemed a figure I beheld	B
Fairer than anything of eld	B
Fashioned from sunny marble Here	L
Nature was artist with no peer	M
No chisel's purpose could have caught	B
These lines nor brush their secret wrought	B
Not so the world weighed busily	N
Pursuing drossy industry	N
But saturated with success	O
Well guarded by a soft excess	O
Of bodily ease gave little heed	B
To him that held not by their creed	B
Save o'er the beauteous youth to moan	P
A pity that he is not grown	P
To our good stature and heavier weight	B
To bear his share of our full freight	B
Meanwhile thus to himself he spoke	Q
Oh noble is the knotted oak	Q
And sweet the gush of sylvan streams	R
And good the great sun's gladding beams	R
The blush of life upon the field	B
The silent might that mountains wield	B
Still more I love to mix with men	S
Meeting the kindly human ken	S
To feel the force of faithful friends	T
The thirst for smiles that never ends	T
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Yet precious more than all of these	U
I hold great Sorrow's mysteries	U
Whereby Gehenna's sultry gale	V
Is made to lift the golden veil	V
'Twixt heaven's starry sphered light	B
Of truth and our dim sun blent sight	B
Joy comes to ripen but 'tis Grief	J
That garners in the grainy sheaf	J
Time was I feared to know or feel	W
The spur of aught but gilded weal	W
To bear aloft the victor Fame	X
Would ev'n have champed a stately shame	X
Of bit and bridle But my fears	Y
Fell off in the pure bath of tears	Z
And now with sinews fresh and strong	A2
I stride to summon with a song	A2
The deep invigorating truth	B2
That makes me younger than my youth	B2
O Sorrow deathless thy delight	B
Deathless it were but for our slight	B
Endurance Truth like thine too rare	C2
We dare but take in scantiest share	C2
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He died the creatures of his kind	B
Fared on Not one had known his mind	B
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But the unnamed yearnings of the air	C2
The eternal sky's wide searching stare	C2
The undertone of brawling floods	D2
And the old moaning of the woods	E2
Grew full of memory	N
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The sun	F2
Many a brave heart has shone upon	G2
Since then of men who walked abroad	B
For joy and gladness praising God	B
But widowed Grief lives on alone	P
She hath not chosen of them one	F2

George Parsons Lathrop

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